• First_Thunder@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    I tried to read it, it is so badly written. Might be a bad translation, but there is so much rambling that I didn’t manage to reach much more than half of it

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      I’ve heard from native German speakers that it is legitimately rambling and incoherent, and that translators often have difficulty presenting it because it’s easy to seem like you ‘messed up’ outputting gibberish, but a good translation has to be accurate to the source itself being gibberish.

      Famously, even fellow fascist Mussolini hated Mein Kampf and regarded it as unreadable, lmao.

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      If it’s loads of rambling, then it’s true to the German original. It’s a badly written book that has aged badly and has lots and lots of obscure rambling.