[Lexicog] When Semantics Doesn't Matter

[Bill Poser]

I have been told by people whose knowledge of both
Shakespeare and German is better than my own that
Shakespeare is better in German translation.
It seems odd that anything would be better in translation,
but I suppose that the English of Shakespeare is sufficiently
different from Modern English that this may be like saying
that Shakespeare is better in Modern German translation than
in Modern English translation, which is not so implausible.

Bill


 
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