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>>6353
Cyrillic isn't a transliteration, it's the original, it's not transferring to another state.
>If you can translate everything in modern English then modern English
>It all should be about accuracy and convenience.
Translations are about matching evocation and prose. It would be diminishing for example to have the Epic of Gilgamesh told in contemporary English because we feel that ancient languages, even without the exalting verbosity they used, are grand and haughty. I'm assuming I'm correct about how little Russian has changed in the past century and a half so when reading the classics of the 1800s is it interpreted in the same manner as Victorian English because of the context of the times or is it as potent as the Russian of now simply because nothing had changed.