Translation and Taste

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Love this essay on translation and matters of taste. I agree that all translation strikes a delicate balance of literal meaning accuracy versus the feel of the words versus stuff like wordplay that can get lost in literal translation.

(Like the fact that my own favorite translation of Pushkin's famous novel in verse Evgeny Onegin is the Hostetter translation which livens things up with similar jokes in the text to those in the original)