Interestingly, part of the reason that, until now, Trump has been supported in Russia is due to translation. If you read the Russian language papers like I do, you’ll notice that the Russian translators don’t verbatim copy what Trump says. Instead, they’ll translate what he’s saying into short, professional, statesman-like statements, instead of what he really says. So instead of “I think nuclear weapons should be way down, and reduced, that’s part of it.”, the Russian audience gets a statement that translates back into English as “I think we’ll start with a substantial decrease in nuclear weapons stockpiles.” When Trump calls something “dumb” or “sad”, the Russian press will have him call it “damned”. “Bad hombres” becomes “armed bandits” and so on.
The Russian support for Trump becomes a lot easier to understand when you realize they’re literally not listening to the same person we are.
It’s really weird to see translation add nuance to a politician’s talk rather than take it away, but this makes so much sense.
But some interpreters, like Tsuruta, are concerned that translating the U.S. president too accurately might reflect badly on them. Alina Cincan, a Romanian interpreter and translator, tells Newsweek: “He’s not known for his eloquence nor his diplomacy. Either you translate exactly what he says which means it’ll be repetitive and sometimes gibberish—you’ll be saying ‘tremendous’, ‘very’ or ‘great’ a lot, or you try to make some sense out of it and ‘beautify’ it. If you choose the former, some may judge your interpreting abilities as poor, whereas if you choose the latter, you’ll make him sound better.”
‘Make America big again’? The headache of translating Trump into foreign languages.
“Most of the time, when he speaks he seems not to know quite where he’s going,” Viennot said. “It’s as if he had thematic clouds in his head that he would pick from with no need of a logical thread to link them.”
She is left with a dilemma: either translate Trump exactly as he speaks — and let French readers struggle with the content — or keep the content, but smooth out the style, “so that it is a little bit more intelligible, leading non-English speakers to believe that Trump is an ordinary politician who speaks properly.”
While male sports reporters are typically judged by their commentary and analysis, women in the same industry face far more superficial and sexist scrutiny. It can feel especially bad when seemingly “feminist” publications turn their back.
Yeah (sylv loves telling this story) the glass cracked and the water spilled, and there was all sorts of electrical stuff lying around, and apparently Sophie almost got electrocuted
At ReGeneration Who, Sophie said this clip is included in a “safety awareness/instruction” video that new employees at BBC have to watch.
The clip is also on the “Battlefield” DVD. It’s a bit surreal. You hear the “THOOONK!’ of the glass cracking, see the water level immediately start to lower, and a look of confusion on Sophie’s voice…
…then you hear this THUNDEROUS Scottish voice bellow, “GET HER OUT!!!”
this also reminds me of that famous explosion in the greatest show in the galaxy that came off bigger than expected and sylv is almost thrown to the ground be he keeps strolling with a swag and classic who is hardcore af
theres some shitty post thats like “heres bandanna colors and hand signs u can use to display ur team pride for pokemon go!” including the literal hand signs for the bloods and the crips which are… REAL LIFE GANGS…
and theres people spreading it around thinking its real and fun, and it scares me the thought of some kids (ESP kids of color) playing pokemon go at night and getting ratted on or hurt by police for looking “suspicious” and wearing bandannas and displaying signs for real world gangs
basically some shitty racist people are using the whole “team pride!” thing in pokemon go to falsely get colored kids hurt, by PURPOSEFULLY SPREADING MISINFORMATION ON A GAME DIRECTED AT KIDS, and thats shit
Law professor Roger Fisher suggested that nuclear launch codes be implanted in a volunteer’s heart. The president would be required to personally take the life of an innocent person before taking the lives of hundreds of millions. (Source)
