• Substance_P@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    5 days ago

    Meanwhile Jesse Watters says America needs to bomb or “maybe gas” the United Nations. Nothing to be alarmed about.

  • Pizza_Rat@lemmy.world
    31·
    5 days ago

    We should definitely talk about this embarrassing blunder instead of the ongoing concealment of the Epstein files!

    • dumbass@aussie.zoneEnglish
      20·
      5 days ago

      The sign language interpreter: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      Edit: How do I fix my Bois arm? he fixed.

    • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
      17·
      5 days ago

      There’s been at least one instance that I know of of an interpreter (for a German TV station) accidentally complaining on air about the bullshit Donnie made him translate. I’d be surprised if there weren’t more internationally.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
      10·
      4 days ago

      there was a series of articles during his first term where translators in (i think) india complained that it made them look bad, because they worked in one of those modal languages where politicians use a specific modus as a matter of course. since his speech is so erratic it was basically impossible to represent in that “political mode” and it made the translation look wrong, they stopped publishing what he said and just produced summaries edited to look correct.

      i think about that a lot, especially in combination with polled populations in some countries being more in favour of don than others.

      sidenote, i tried to find one of the articles i remember but that’s all been overshadowed by an event from february in which he used a translator app on stage to try to understand what an indian reporter asked him in english.

      Edit: found one: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/06/trump-translation-interpreters
      i think i mixed things up a bit, the indian translators were indeed producing summaries because he was hard to translate but it was the japanese translators that had problems with modal speech. makes sense really.

      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
        3·
        4 days ago

        would pose a problem for Japanese interpreters came last year after a leaked 2005 recording in which he made lewd remarks about women, describing how he grabs women “by the pussy”.

        “We all had a huge problem with that,” said Tsuruta, who is also a professor of interpreting and translation studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. “If we had used [the Japanese loan word] pushii then a lot of people would not have understood what we were talking about.”

        In the end, she played safe with the regular Japanese words for female genitalia. “It still made us all feel very uncomfortable.”

        I remember them talking about this. One translator was even quoted as saying Japanese doesn’t have a slang word for pussy, which was just wrong. It’s perhaps a bit more vulgar than they’d want to print in a newspaper but it’s not quite as strong as cunt, or the was the US uses it anyway–maybe it’s comparable to printing that in an Australian newspaper.

    • athairmor@lemmy.world
      19·
      5 days ago

      It was Cambodia and Armenia.

      It doesn’t even need the exaggeration. He’s a senile old man and he addressed the United Nations and told them he ended a war between two countries that are 4000 miles apart who have never been at war with each other.

  • Ilixtze@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    5 days ago

    When you let the dumbest motherfucker make a speech at the party because he payed all the booze with money he borrowed and he’s not paying back.