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Re:The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Transla... by adrianN on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @09:53AM (#17653101)
Maybe there are examples of texts that can't be translated even by humans? Language Log has discussions about so-called words that can't be translated regularly and generally rejects that concept, but maybe whole texts are more difficult. The I-Ching has several translations that don't resemble each other very much and it's common knowledge that a translation can be either accurate or beautiful but rarely both.

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