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"A stroll to Staten Island"

Pardon me? Like, through New Jersey? Hell of a stroll!

Obvious mistranslation. I am guessing the intended meaning of the French original was something like "excursion" or "cruise".

A mistranslation. I have an original french version which says "Promenade avec Chiaromonte et Abel à Staten Island.", so we're talking about a walk in Staten Island, not to Staten Island I believe.

Google Translate says: "Walk with Chiaromonte and Abel in Staten Island."

But I think it should be "on Staten Island"? So perhaps the score is:

Google Translate: ½

Ryan Bloom: 0

(Sorry, Ryan! I've made worse mistakes myself!)

I wonder how many other lines are completely inaccurate? Makes me not want to bother reading... anything translated.

perhaps he took a ferry? and isn't there a bridge? things may get lost in translation.

There's no bridge to this day. There's the start of a tunnel on both ends, but not very far along. He likely took a ferry.

what about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrazzano-Narrows_Bridge

It didn't open until after Camus had died.

well, though i may claim to know something about camus, i would not claim to know anything at all about bridges,

He said "there's no bridge to this day".

There's no bridge to the day from Manhattan* where Camus appeared to be spending time. There is indeed the Verazzano narrows bridge to south Brooklyn. But that would be a pretty far walk

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