Why are English Bible translations so bad??

Manny wrote: I wonder how many Orthodox know how the LXX came to be written. Briefly, King Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt was the first great bibliophile; it was he who was largely responsible for compiling the great library at Alexandria. One great work he did not have was the compilation of the Jewish Laws, in other words, the Mosaic texts and the rest of the OT. At the suggestion of his librarian, he exchanged 100,000 Jewish captives for the seventy Jewish scholars (hence 'Septuagint'--the text of the "seventy") from the Holy Land that were to compile the text. We are not sure of the date of the original text, but we do know that Ptolemy Philadelphus' queen died in 270 BC. I might also add that the great library of the city of Pergamos was added to the library of Alexandria when Marc Antony of Rome purchased it and gave it to Cleopatra as a gift. (BTW, paper and the skill of writing in Pergamos was very advanced; our word "parchment" ultimately derives from the word "Pergamos".)