{"id":21654,"date":"2019-08-12T14:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21654"},"modified":"2019-08-12T14:27:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T18:27:53","slug":"google-translate-is-not-good-at-classical-greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21654","title":{"rendered":"Google Translate is not good at classical Greek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aeschylus, <em>Prometheus Bound<\/em>, lines 19-35, in my amateur translation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Prometheus, you will always suffer under <br>One tyrant or another, uncomforted: <br>That\u2019s the price of befriending people. <br>A god, you didn\u2019t fear the rage of gods <br>When you gave mortals the forbidden gifts. <br>The penalty: you\u2019ll always guard this rock, <br>This awful rock. No sleep, no rest; you can\u2019t even <br>Move your leg. You just sing out your anguish <br>To no effect. Prometheus, it is a hard thing <br>To change the mind of the king of the gods. <br>For every new ruler is harsh and cruel.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>And according to Google Translate<sup>TM<\/sup>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Arthovoulos Themidis absolutely, <br>Nearby of dissolvable copper <br>I use human ice cream <br>It is neither the voice nor the brute form <br>Light, constant flame retardant <br>you have to pay for flowers. Tied up <br><em>lei<\/em> a variety of hidden hides, <br>thunderstorms if the sun again: <br>This is a bad thing <br>bury you: \u00e0 \u00e0 \u00e0 \u00f9 \u00f9 \u00f9   <br><br>this is what I give to the philanthropic way. <br>God forbid, not even for the balloons <br>Honorable Mention I Am Out Of Trial. <br>There are no stone guards here <br>Arthostadin, Cleft, the knee flexor: <br>a lot of good people and good people. <br>Type: Two grams of unpleasant brakes. <br>You left me alone in the new hold.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, lines 19-35, in my amateur translation: Prometheus, you will always suffer under One tyrant or another, uncomforted: That\u2019s the price of befriending people. A god, you didn\u2019t fear the rage of gods When you gave mortals the forbidden gifts. The penalty: you\u2019ll always guard this rock, This awful rock. No sleep, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21654"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21704,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21654\/revisions\/21704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}