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There's a lot to gab about this week, so it's a good thing our hosts had some extra time. Among other things, the trio delve into the moral scolds who think it'd be a great idea to bowdlerize our favorite children's stories; and they're glad to hear how Vivek Ramaswamy will shake things up as the newest Republican candidate for 2024.
Then Eli Lake, who spoke with the hosts the day after the invasion, returns to assess Ukraine, Russia and the United States after one year. They get into Putin's troubles, Europe's surprising resilience, China's alleged jump into the fray, and... nukes, of course.
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This bowdlerization is frankly a translation into a new language, in that translations never bring across the whole cargo -- it's simply not possible. The example of pulling hair vs wigs misses some characterization and texture, as well as substituting a supposedly equivalent expression in "nicer" terms.
No translation can convey the meaning of the original, and instead brings new baggage from the new language. It's an old problem, and not really disputed except by people with an axe to grind about the similarity of all cultures and so forth -- those folks.
So this is really a translation project, from a faraway free land into the shorn and weighted language of an oppressed people. Be nice. Or else.
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Wasn't "fat" changed to "enormous" and isn't "enormous" worse?
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I think the word @RobLong was looking for, in regard to China, was "inscrutable."
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The “updaters” of Roald Dahl’s books are grave robbers, pure and simple: editorial vampires of the worst sort.
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