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Beat all localizers to death with bricks and hammers

@sickburnbro roman helmet guy just has to be fitpatrick 3+, i can tell

@sickburnbro parasites position themselves between you and something of value and they inject their poison

@sickburnbro
>Even classical studies is suffering from the trannylation problem.
I don't think we are getting out of the trannylation crisis for the next decade or so, guys, not even with neural network machines.

@lain @sickburnbro have you thought about switching to the monk skin tone scale, it respects your freedoms and is available under the terms of CC-BY-4.0

Not even fanfic. A fanfic could theoretically be good. It's just a straight up mutilation of the original.

@sampo @sickburnbro the autistic guy from the tv show?

making a work "relevant" for "modern audiences" is just the higher brow version of doing fanfic

@sickburnbro cant imagine the mental gymnastics that a leftist classicist has to jump through to get to “actually Helen of Troy really WAS black.”

Calling it fanfic is a good shaming tactic

@sickburnbro Rendering a text into reasonably colloquial English is quite important though, if you focus too hard on accurately representing the source material you end up with something like the awful, stilted classics-esse that plagues modern translations of classical texts; you're much better off learning Greek and Latin than suffering through those overly-literal garbage translations

Effective translation, especially of literature, always involves rewriting the source text to some degree

Do Bible next.

We don’t need another hellthread on this, do we?

>well i feel that the main character should have been a gay black trans woman
~jews

To thread purgatory it goes.

Roman Helmet Guy is often correct about things; nevertheless he’s a chink revisionizer that denies the existence in history of the man Hannibal Barca.

"i wanted to be a writer but no one takes me srsly so I puppet a dead mans corpse to push my ideas"

@sickburnbro another one of the millions of jobs that should be left to me if not for the fact that I just cant do it

@scathach @sickburnbro Yeah, but we're not talking about that here. The "modern" translation Nolan is using for example fundamentally changes Helen's description of herself, from knowing she sinned badly to not.

@ThatWouldBeTelling @sickburnbro Oh I didn't know this was about the Odyssey movie, a bad translation is probably the least of the things wrong with that shitshow

Wokalizers get the rope, after a week in the stocks with a bare ass.. see just how many leeks can fit in there..

@ThatWouldBeTelling @sickburnbro I was thinking mostly of how they seem to be casting people from every single ethnicity under the sun _except_ Greek people, for an adaptation of Greek literature

I think that's the point people are sticking on simply *because* it isn't a major character