• Jayjader@jlai.lu
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    7 hours ago

    From what I’ve heard, Mein Kampf is similarly drivel. Don’t know if that’s comforting or even more depressing…

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      7 hours ago

      I’ve read that one too – not sure if it was the fault of the translators, but it had better structure to it. Like the ideas were still half baked nonsense, and the rhetoric was very blood and soil ish nationalist plonk. But it’s rhetoric/prose was more convincing/plausible.

      But the American one is just… like it isn’t even consistent with its self… it’s just utter trash.

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        43 minutes ago

        I’ve read that one too – not sure if it was the fault of the translators, but it had better structure to it.

        The hill I will die on: the English translation of Nena’s 99 Luftballoons is far more poetic than the original. Some translators just have that magic ability to see what the author was going for, and then put it much better in a different language.