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Jiang prefers the Allen Mandelbaum translation because he is focusing on the ideas rather than the language.
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Jiang prefers the Allen Mandelbaum translation because he is focusing on the ideas rather than the language.
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Jiang says he uses Allen Mandelbaum's translation because it is accessible, and he avoids close reading The Divine Comedy because translated diction cannot bear that kind of word-level analysis.
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"...very beginning of the Divine Comedy. This is the Alan Menenbaum translation, okay? And I choose Alan Menenbaum. There are lots of other translations..."
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"...oh yeah yeah yes okay um so there have been multiple translations of the Divine Comedy um this man is named Alan Mendelbaum and..."
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"are there are these translations by um Longfellow which is uh beautiful but it's really complicated um I think um extra pound has also..."
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"...fact, all machine learning works with database. So you look at translations, translations are working off databases as well. Okay. And the great danger..."
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"...very beginning of the Divine Comedy. This is the Alan Menenbaum translation. Okay? And I choose Alan Menenbaum. There are lots of other translations...."
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"...followers in Polish and we are now going to read a translation by Harris Linowitz from the University of Utah. Okay? These are his..."
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"The Iliad. Now this is a translation by Robert Fagles. So let's, at the very beginning of the Iliad, okay? Homer says this, Rage,..."
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"...okay and again there's it's German but there's no actual English translation for it so it's books books and books and books and books..."
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"translation okay any more questions okay so so um so so so so can we do one more slide the Augustine slide and then..."
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"...can solve, right? Well, for example, facial recognition technology, okay? Also, translation software, right? I can create an optimal translation software. Also, recommendation engines,..."
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