Re:Thousand Character Classic
by eru on Friday March 08, 2024 @12:42AM
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Strangely, they don't say anything about a translation into English.
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Re:Thousand Character Classic
by ssnistfajen on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:03AM
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The very first link under "External links" of the Wikipedia page: "Transcribed, Translated and Annotated Thousand Character Essay by Nathan Sturman"
https://www.angelfire.com/ns/pingyaozhuan/tce.html
The meanings conveyed by the text is not very unique or useful, and this is especially apparent once translated to another language. It provides practically no insight to anything, as this isn't a true classical text.
Check the bibliography and external links sections, e.g. http://www.camcc.org/_media/reading-group/qianziwen-en.pdf
Re:Thousand Character Classic
by userbinator on Friday March 08, 2024 @12:52AM
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Google tried its best but not surprisingly doesn't work well on poetry; it begins with "The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, and the universe is primitive. Covering this body and hair are the four elements and five constant elements."
And contains such amusements as:
"Gong Wei Ju Yang, how dare you damage it."
"It clears up confusion and benefits customs, and everything is wonderful."
"Upgraded to accept the emperor, turned into a star of doubt."
"The world is luxurious and rich, and the car is fat and light."
It doesn't help that many of these characters are not in frequent use anymore, which means that the translation model has been trained with way less sentences involving them. Others' usage pattern have shifted, or they picked up many additional meanings over the millenia, and the translation model is probably not savvy enough to ignore all the modern ones. With "modern" meaning everything after like 200 A.D.