Comment on Do we intentionally translate ancient stuff and languages to sound old timey as an artistic choice, or is there some other reason?

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Sombyr@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I don’t have direct examples because I suck at googling, but what I saw that made me think of this was an ancient Greek philosopher insulting another, presumably in a rude tone, but still translated to look super polite and old timey. The explanations people have given here have really shed a lot of light for me on why that is though, so it makes sense to me now.

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