I will never understand whats wrong with translations. For example

I guess you're just retarded then.

>Translations
>Ever being done right

Languages are so different from each others that executing completely correct translations are factually impossible.
You simply cannot transcript a text in another language without sacrificing significant portions of the word play that was done by the author of the work.

>>7657081
so what do

>>7657089
Accept that translations can radically change the messages of a text

>>7657103
how changing a words, and rhythm may "radically change message of tex"?

>>7657112
Because words represent symbols in the minds of those who read, understand or made them in the first place. Languages are cultural things, that's why some 2 letter sanscrit crap is 2 lines of english.

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>>7657103

>read Crime and Punishment
>think it's kind of boring, but realize I have a lousy translation
>read other translation
>in this one, Raskolnikov doesn't just kill an old pawnbroker, but commits steals a car doing drive-bys on civilians and then works his way up an infamous crime syndicate

>>7657112
realize that two people reading the /exact/ same text can come away with completely different interpretations, and then compound the problem with bad translations.

>>7657052
Why people can't understand that translations are impossible?

There aren't logic languages, traductions are interpretations.

British can't understand American speaking the same language and you want that a modern guy understand (and make you understand) another guy that died 1000 years ago?