Translation quality may account for stylistic oddities
7 Nov 2 6:43 PM · 8d ago · 1 comment · 1 source · development 7 of 7
A commenter who appears familiar with the original Russian suggests that phrasing choices in the English translation ('ate' vs. 'for now') and dialogue construction may have lost nuance in rendering, and highlights how the cheese-maker exchange would better convey mood in the original language.
“I liked it, felt the translation "ate" something."For now" is more organic in the original language.”
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As I was reading it occurred to me, too, that I'm reading something written by an LLM. I was not sure and I'm still not sure, and nothing says that your "tells" are exclusive to LLMs.The point though is that regardless of whether this was written by an LLM or not, the reason that I thought it might be, is that I found the writing really poor. Not…
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I really appreciate that you articulated this.Before checking the comments I read a couple of paragraphs, but ultimately just closed the tab without finishing it. This was not because I specifically suspected an LLM, but because it just wasn't "working" for me, for reasons I couldn't articulate.Thanks to your hints I'll just see it for what it is…
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Before checking the comments I read a couple of paragraphs, but ultimately just closed the tab without finishing it. This was not because I specifically suspected an LLM, but because it just wasn't "working" for me, for reasons I couldn't articulate.Is this because it's slop? Or because it's a (possibly bad) translation? I can't really say, but…
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I liked it, felt the translation "ate" something."For now" is more organic in the original language.The dialog with the cheese-maker would convey the mood better (consider that so far = so long in the original): - Why cheese? - So far no one is doing this for me. - So far? - So long.
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