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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Here's how Le Guin's version renders these parts, just for fun:

The way you can go
isn't the real way.
The name you can say
isn't the real name

Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Google translate has a different take:

Road to Road, very Avenue. Famous, very famous

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I now understand how people thought the CPC announced a ban on femboys

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair, it's much better for modern Chinese (most of the time) but this being so old and poetic yeah it just has no idea what to do with it lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Google translate barely works for modern Chinese. and this is a company where half the employees have names like "Charlie Huang". Biggest Bazinga L.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It works pretty okay at very stuffy formal stuff but it's pretty bad at informal speech, in my experience

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