• snekerpimp@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Boring speech from a boring public speaker. You can tell from how he rambles he’s an old, boring man

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    15 days ago

    Some people say about Trump, “I like him because he’s brave enough to say what we’re all thinking”. I say that about this translator.

  • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl
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    16 days ago

    Simultaneous translation is a difficult job. And then he has to translate words without any meaning. That’s tough. I feel for him.

    • MartianSands@sh.itjust.works
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      15 days ago

      I’ve heard it’s actually really difficult, because a good translator doesn’t do it literally.

      They’re supposed to say something which gets the same meaning across, which often isnt what you’d get just by translating each word.

      That leaves people translating trump with a problem: you can’t generally turn his long rambling speeches into something with a clearly understandable meaning without putting words into his mouth, or summarising so aggressively that you’d only say a couple of sentences for every few minutes of speech

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        15 days ago

        I’ve read that deaf or non-English speakers don’t really get to understand just how stupid trump really is because it’s impossible to accurately translate his nonsense babbling.

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          8 days ago

          Kind of true if you just read news headlines as well. Lots of sane washing occurs around Trump where he’ll say something absolutely batshit insane and the media picks it apart to make it sound like a cohesive policy.

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            15 days ago

            Hah, yes, I meant usually newspapers make him seem coherent in print. You’re right, I have read some transcripts that are just undecipherable.

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          15 days ago

          I’m Deaf and I don’t need much to see how stupid he is. However I can’t say the same among some folks in the Deaf community though.