Recently I've come across quite a few articles about the difficulties of translating Donald Trump's statements (and those of his inner circle) into other languages. I intend to steer entirely clear of remarking on the politics, but the challenge of translation seems obvious! Thought others might be interested...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ranslation
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/ ... b-someone/
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=36208 (good discussion and further links in comments)
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... the-mooch/ (particularly funny - might not be safe for work if your work cares about profanity?)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... terpreters
Translating Trump
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Soffía wrote:Recently I've come across quite a few articles about the difficulties of translating Donald Trump's statements (and those of his inner circle) into other languages. I intend to steer entirely clear of remarking on the politics, but the challenge of translation seems obvious! Thought others might be interested...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ranslation
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/ ... b-someone/
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=36208 (good discussion and further links in comments)
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... the-mooch/ (particularly funny - might not be safe for work if your work cares about profanity?)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... terpreters
For what it's worth, Unilang has a thread full of translations in news outlets and newspapers for "s**thole countries".
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