Talk:Chunwang (poem)

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Did you know... that Burton Raffel called Arthur Cooper's translation of a poem by Du Fu "exceedingly lame"?

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Latest comment: 1 year ago4 comments3 people in discussion

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 20:56, 23 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

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... that Burton Raffel called Arthur Cooper's translation of a poem by Du Fu "exceedingly lame"?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Shigeru Ohmori

Created by Kingoflettuce (talk). Self-nominated at 18:25, 21 December 2022 (UTC).Reply

Working on this one. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:48, 22 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

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GTG. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:04, 22 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Slightly confusing bit

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Article reads

... the verbs meaning "feel" and "hate" are paired together ...

However, those words don't appear in the English translation that we include.

Can we do anything to clarify this?

- 189.122.243.241 (talk) 00:40, 9 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

Because it is after all a translation and many words can mean roughly the same thing (hence "verbs meaning"). That's as much as the source says anyway but if you're interested the words are 感 and 恨 KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 10:46, 9 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

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