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Re:Cameras and Lenses by leephillips on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:34AM (#25373495)
Reminds me of Nabokov complaining about the incompetent translators of Russian novels → English writing Mr. Karenina.
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Re:Cameras and Lenses by jgwil2 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:08PM (#25381068)
It wasn't "Mr. Karenina" (I've never seen anyone use that form) he took issue with; he believed that the name should be translated as Anna Karenin rather than the usual Karenina, since English does not inflect surnames.
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