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Re:Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese by shawabawa3 on Monday November 11, 2019 @11:10AM (#21505943)
I've actually heard that french translations of shakespeare are "better" than the english originals, as they modernise it a bit, whereas the english version is left in an archaic form of english where a lot of the rhymes and puns no longer work
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Re:Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese by sersi on Monday November 11, 2019 @12:14PM (#21506564)
That's a good point. One could argue that Shakespeare's early modern English feels like a different dialect of English and as such would be better translated during representations...
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