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So I tried reading the gutemberg project version of the Decameron, found it unreadable, and went looking for a modern, abridged translation. Instead I found this interesting essay on translation by a guy who turned down a modern translation commission
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Thank you. I'd not read it earlier. He has my sympathy but seems like a highminded aesthetic test, a luxury even, that few, especially Indian languages, can afford. So little of its various bhasha literature is even mistranslated! [Decameron is fairly tedious to read! I agree]
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