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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
Strange word choice and order is a reason for me to not want a translation. I am bothered by misspellings and poor grammar in books written in English, so that's no different to me. "sometimes not everything can be translated correctly" is another reason to not want a translation.
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I probably didn't phrase that right, think of it more like a dialect and not bad english. Misspellings and incorrect grammar are clear mistakes that shouldn't be in any book. Aside from difference in spelling (not incorrect) there usually still is a different feel to a book in an american vs british author. And that is without adding translation ontop of that. Same thing for translated work, just to a higher degree.
Personally I rather have the feel of the original book intact - I want to be able to recognize that a book was written by a e.g. native german speaker simply talking in english. When learning a second language there is a huge difference in having a teacher that is native and one that learned that language him or herself. If you want to learn french, then the best way to learn short of moving to France is by having a native french teacher.