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by youzicha 2979 days ago
Oh, let me plug Peter Boodberg's startlingly bizzare version, which begins "Lodehead lodehead-brooking : no forwonted lodehead"... It's such an alien approach to translation, you can see his logic, but the end product looks like something from a Markov chain.

https://youzicha.tumblr.com/post/142657117089/philological-n... http://www.jstor.org/stable/2718364?s

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While the analysis is interesting, the resulting "translation" is useless nonsense.
Odd. I looked at it and thought it was a brilliant use of English, on par with anything James Joyce did.
That is not necessarily disagreement.
It is useful in showing us how alien the original is.