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Telephone game: "Translating words through many languages and back is like playing the telephone game." -> "Your words in many languages and return to phone g
by RobertRoberts 4y ago
Telephone game:
"Translating words through many languages and back is like playing the telephone game." -> "Your words in many languages and return to phone games."
Do NOT use auto-translate for political speeches:
"Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country" -> "Don't ask what you can do for your country. But what can you do in your country?"
- dr_orpheus 4y agoEven when using real translators, there have been issues political speeches. I don't remember the exact context but at the height of the Cold War there was a meeting at the UN and the USSR representative said an idiom that was meant to be treated as "we (communism) will outlive you (capitalism)", but is more literally translated as "we will bury you" which tends to have a different connotation in English. Edit: It was Nikita Khrushchev at the Polish Embassy with Western ambassadors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you