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by nikatwork 3516 days ago
Chinese citizens veil government criticism using innuendo ranging from obvious to subtle as a means to avoid censorship etc. Westerners often miss this subtext. The innuendo in TFA is so blunt that the translation is believable.
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It's not an ad litteram translation, but we will still obviously lose some of the more subtle linguistics.
the main point comes across obviously and nicely, and is about as subtle as A Modest Proposal.
Would you like to come up and see my etchings ? Better still, stay here and I'll bring them down. :)