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Second, for a quick comparison, here is Wilson's translations next to others.
— Ascend: The Great Books Podcast (@TheGreatB00ks) December 28, 2024
Wilson's tends to be flat and banal (setting aside ideological concerns).
But let's look at some deeper critiques below ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Tsn1GAlzQj
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Why is everyone talking about the Wilson translation, it came out a while ago
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making the rounds because of the subtweet in the thread
it's ok when people publish bad work, but when people feel the need to say it's good because you are a women is embarrassing.
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That's Emily? What would her father think of all those tattoos
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He'd probably be thinking about molesting xer
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Town of troy? Is she fricking
stupid? Is this shit real, this is actually 
like, worse than what a student 
who has no fricking 
clue would 
translate. Google 
would 
be better.
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From line one the first translation makes the other three look like dogshit, how is he going to post that and recommend the mids
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Only one of these four is readable, guess which one?
Let's take a simple example:
Wtf?
Uhhh...
Oh come on
There you go, you could have said that from the start.
And you can't cope that the foidlation is "less accurate" because all 4 are completely different. And sure, maybe the scrote versions are "more poetic" or whatever the frick, but I'm not reading a translation so I have to decode wtf it means on every single line ffs.
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The greek word means something ironically quite complicated, it isnt just "he's a complicated man" it's something like that he has many avenues
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In that case only Fitzgerald understood what it meant. You only need two avenues if one of them has a BIPOC waiting to rob you
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heheheh
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If you can make every book like the hungry caterpillar, you can get more foids to read. Profit
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Snapshots:
https://x.com/TheGreatB00ks/status/1873156776952250464:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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