Translator Monkey’s Reviews > The U-2 Over the Soviet Union: America’s Famous Cold War Spy Plane from a Soviet Perspective > Status Update
Translator Monkey
is on page 50 of 256
I'll be honest, this will not be an easy one for me to complete.
The translation is among the worst I've ever seen in a published book, and this includes vanity press releases. I feel qualified to offer this, as someone who has translated Russian into English for 45 years. Further, a good deal of it has dealt with the sort of aerospace technical stuff Degtev has written here.
More to come, I'm sure.
— Jun 08, 2026 04:43AM
The translation is among the worst I've ever seen in a published book, and this includes vanity press releases. I feel qualified to offer this, as someone who has translated Russian into English for 45 years. Further, a good deal of it has dealt with the sort of aerospace technical stuff Degtev has written here.
More to come, I'm sure.
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Translator Monkey
is on page 102 of 256
Still slogging through this. A book full of very interesting information, but aside from the atrocious translation (see previous update), there are serious grammatical errors that an editor would have caught. Incorrect noun-verb agreement, poor application of definite/indefinite articles, and black-sheep words that don't seem to belong to the sentences in which they are found.
Sticking with it, though. Wish me luck.
— Jun 09, 2026 05:46AM
Sticking with it, though. Wish me luck.
