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It’s real. Here’s the article in Focus’s archive (German): http://www.focus.de/wissen/wissenschaft/forschung-und-technik-das-ist-kapitalismus_aid_155749.html ht
by arrrg 17y ago
It’s real. Here’s the article in Focus’s archive (German): http://www.focus.de/wissen/wissenschaft/forschung-und-technik-das-ist-kapitalismus_aid_155749.html http://www.focus.de/wissen/wissenschaft/forschung-und-techni... (quite easy to find, actually)
Interview and transcript are not exactly the same. The transcript sounds more like, well, a transcript, the published interview is a lot smoother. Since all printed interviews are highly artificial products this is certainly to be expected. The transcript really seems to be the raw transcript. Even if it isn’t – the content is the same, the printed interview only sounds nicer.
- wyday 17y agoSo Bill's comments are a translation of a translation? (English -> German -> English) Perhaps that's why they sound so unrealistic.
- arrrg 17y agoI don’t think so. The linked transcript seems to be the real deal, the raw transcript of (a part of) the interview that was later translated for the magazine. The transcript sounds pretty natural (then again, I’m not a native English speaker) even if it might not fit the usual style of Gates. The German interview sounds a little strange (you immediately notice that it was translated). I don’t think it was translated by a very skilled translator. I guess the English version would sound quite a bit more strange if you translated the German interview again.