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Getting the tone of voice right is especially tricky in my experience. As a reader I always find translations harder to 'accept'; I am always left wondering where the author's work stops and the translator's starts, especially with the translated renditions of dialects and socio-economically stratified language.

Alas, there are only so many languages one can manage to read effectively in. For some languages, such as Russian or ancient Greek, I will likely remain dependent on translators.

On the topic of the ongoing migration to CE/BCE in English; I have no French lingual experience to speak of, but aren't ÈC (Ère commune) and ÈV (Ère vulgaire) equivalent to CE and BCE respectively?



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