If you read a translation, can you really say you've

What's so difficult about adding the caveat of it being a translation when you talk about, like an academic?

Technically you haven't. Non-autistically you have.

If you're read a text outside of the socio-cultural milieu in which it was written, can you really say you've read the book?

>>9070813
If you read a book not being its author - can you really say you've understood it?

>>9070828
>Fuuuuggg you made my noodle doodle dude.
Consider this as well it is often believed authors subconsciously impart their complexes into aspects of a book so then, do they, consciously understand their own work?

>>9070849
It is more complicated: because their complexes must go through those who correct, edit, publish their work etc.

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If you've eaten some bacon and didn't intimately know the sow from whom it was chopped, can you really say you've eaten the bacon?

>>9070867
where did you get my wife's photo?

>>9070790
Sure! Honestly, I say I've read books all the time without even bothering with the translation. Wikipedia article's usually enough, desu.

Douglas Hofstadter wrote a wonderful book on literary translation titled Le Ton beau de Marot. :)

>>9070916
shut up Bertrand

>>9070790
good translations are better than the original