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The original Part 5 translation was definitely better than the original part 4 "translation", in that the people who did part 5 actually knew English. It's got lots of mistakes, though, as well as poor formatting and sentence structure. It reads like it was machine translated even though it wasn't. You could get by on it, but it was a terrible experience.

Part 4 used to be so poorly translated that it was impossible not to recognize.The quality of the scans themselves were equally nightmarish. Supposedly this was done by a single guy in China for his English class project, but that may just be a long standing rumor.

Arguably the Part 5 translations come out of this looking worse though, because people who read them may think they got a good enough experience and will just leave it at that. Part 4, on the other hand....nobody would ever say they got by just fine with Duwang, so they're more likely to have gone back and reread it again later.