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Originally Posted by issybird
I think it's well worth spending money on a modern translation of 19th century and earlier books...
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That's an interesting point. Sometimes I think the reverse.
I read "The Adventures of Mr. Quixote" in the translation from Tobias G. Smollett.
I would never read an English book in a second language, but I often read a book in a third language translated into my second language in preferrence to my first.
Mmm, this is beginning to sound like Abbott and Costello.