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Re:Translations of the Dao De Jing by youzicha on Sunday April 29, 2018 @10:35PM (#16955265)
Oh, let me plug Peter Boodberg's startlingly bizzare version, which begins "Lodehead lodehead-brooking : no forwonted lodehead"... It's such an alien approach to translation, you can see his logic, but the end product looks like something from a Markov chain.

https://youzicha.tumblr.com/post/142657117089/philological-n... http://www.jstor.org/stable/2718364?s

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Re:Translations of the Dao De Jing by crooked-v on Sunday April 29, 2018 @10:49PM (#16955326)
While the analysis is interesting, the resulting "translation" is useless nonsense.
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Re:Translations of the Dao De Jing by madhadron on Monday April 30, 2018 @01:02AM (#16955890)
Odd. I looked at it and thought it was a brilliant use of English, on par with anything James Joyce did.
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Re:Translations of the Dao De Jing by lisper on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:34AM (#16957384)
That is not necessarily disagreement.
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Re:Translations of the Dao De Jing by 5040 on Monday April 30, 2018 @10:34AM (#16958832)
It is useful in showing us how alien the original is.
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