What is the best translation of Baudelaire?

>>21929073 (OP)

None. Learn the language, it's French, not Chinese

LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD



Unhelpful, most people don't have time for that. Do not say "you're lazy/stupid/etc", this is a cope in defense of an unnecessary, optional endeavor which needn't be undertaken in order to read a work



>herp derp poetry is untranslatable



Cope harder. We enjoy the lingua franca for a reason. Everyone comes to us, not the other way round. "Monolingual" is never effective as an insult when it is directed at a native English speaker. "Haha, get a load of these stupid winners of the game of life over here." That's what you sound like. Except, you know, however the frogs say it.

Relax, mutt.



>he wrote, in American English, having been obliged to learn the language of the people he hates

>>21929073 (OP)

>Engrish

Scarfe's prose one. Has the original facing it, and useful notes. The rest are all trash.

>most people don't have time for that

You don't have 30-45 minutes to spend a day?

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>Unhelpful, most people don't have time for that. Do not say "you're lazy/stupid/etc", this is a cope in defense of an unnecessary, optional endeavor which needn't be undertaken in order to read a work

Die stupid and American

>We enjoy the lingua franca for a reason

No one "enjoys" the lingua franca retard, people are forced to learn it for economics or by accident because America populated the planet with its stupid entertainment. You don't even like your language and that's why you're trying to read the poetry of another tongue. 

You should be reading Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Shelley and Yeats, and humbly be practicing French conjugations for 30 minutes of your retarded time. Now go. Being monolingual is an embarrassment.



Your reading comprehension is poor precisely because you are ESL, or if you aren't, you have their same resentment which has made you risable. When I said that "We enjoy the lingua franca", I was obviously referring to native English speakers, to the exclusion of those who do not have English as their first language. What is enjoyable about the status of a lingua franca is precisely the fact that people are made to speak and write it who otherwise would not have wanted to have done so, which you register. See >>21929255



Translators, especially translators into English, are cucks, just as doctors and mechanics are cucks. They do my bidding, and there will never be a shortage of any of them, because they provide a marketable service which undermines themselves, and because they feel that they prove themselves.



We have to directly confront the idea that there is any value in learning languages other than English. The inefficiency of Chinese (which they are pathetically trying to overcome by simplifying the glyphs and streamlining the spoken dialects), the superfluous diacritics, ligatures and accents whose rightful graveyard is central North America. For the good of the world, let us accelerate the deaths of native tongues with few speakers, bereft of value.
