My issue with the archaic-sounding translations is that Hugo doesn't write like that--he's very direct! I can put up with it when it's about par with the general levels of fussiness in Victorian-era English prose, but stuff like Hapgood's awkward use of 'thou' drives me right up the wall.
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Date: 2014-03-31 11:52 pm (UTC)