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kjellsbellstoday at 8:45 PM1 replyview on HN

This is a useful marker of progress in translation, not a replacement for literary translators.

Six years ago I fed Dante's Inferno to AWS translation. It was...not good[1]. Maybe its time to try again and see how things have changed.

[1] https://github.com/ffx271/dante-inferno/blob/master/english/...


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veqqtoday at 9:05 PM

> marker of progress

Unfortunately it's just a mix of a few existing translations. Elsewhere there's an explanation showing this line by line.