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Not to be rhe ten millionth person to say “USAmerican President Donald Trump Is An Incoherent Public Speaker Whose Train Of Thought Can Be Best Described As Scat Jazz” but I just remembered that when he talks at international events it is several dozen people’s job to translate what he’s saying and what he intends to say to world leaders in real time

And I desperately wish to hear how they do it

If anyone reading this isn’t fluent enough in English to understand the sentences that man says, please know that he has essentially mixed a number of adjectives and topics together in a hat and is pulling them out at random like a horrible children’s game

Like that waxy jaundiced bitch will straight up be like “J'étais sur internet l'autre jour – internet, la plus grande invention américaine. Et la Chine a “internet aussi. Pas un bon internet, pas comme le mien, j'ai un internet formidable. Les gens me disent : « Donald, ton internet est génial ! » On adore l'internet de Donald. Mais la Chine… Chine, Chine, Chine… Vous savez qu'ils mangent des oiseaux ? C'est terrible. J'adore les oiseaux. La Chine mange des oiseaux. Pas comme nous. Pas comme mes oiseaux. Mais vous savez, c'est comme ça, et c'est terrible. Mais voilà ce que je vais faire : je vais sauver les oiseaux. Je vais sauver internet et sauver les oiseaux. Tous ces magnifiques oiseaux. Pour l'Amérique. Et la Chine va nous détester pour ça. Ils vont nous détester parce qu'on est les meilleurs sur oiseaux”. And people will lose their minds

angryraptor13

International translators have had this problem for A While - if they *don't* clean up what he says to sound coherent, they look like they're doing a bad job.

Explore Trump translation challenges, tips for interpreters, and 2025 strategies for accurate political translation and Trumpslation success

oh my god

freckles-a-constellation

There was a scandal in Poland because one translator decided to translate him accurately, tone, vocabulary level and word salad tangents and all. Polish conservatives who don't speak English and previously only heard smoothed out translations that sounded coherent and used big words were up in arms about how the translator was "inserting her political agenda", "mocking him", "exaggerating", "purposefully trying to make him look bad" and "incredibly unprofessional". I listened to the translation in question. It was literally just accurate.

kimbureh

5. Sensitive and Controversial Language Trump’s speeches occasionally contain misogynistic, sexist, or inflammatory language. Japanese interpreter Tsuruta, for example, faced challenges when translating sexualized remarks, ultimately opting for standard terminology to maintain professionalism. Similarly, Chinese translator Kumiko Torikai found certain lewd expressions ethically challenging, ultimately leading to her retirement. Navigating these situations requires skillful balancing of accuracy, professionalism, and cultural sensitivity, ensuring that the translation is appropriate without distorting the original intent.

I don't know why the authors of PoliLingua act as if Trump's verbal misogyny and racism wasn't very much part of his "original intent".

it only now dawns on me that millions of people on this planet think Trump is way smarter than he is because translators have neglected to relate his violent speech accurately out of misunderstood politeness. Make the ape sound like a ape

cosmogyros

We had a mini-scandal in the German translation/interpretation community last year about exactly this – the interpreter for the inauguration got sick of Trump's incoherence and made a remark into his mic that was not intended to be heard (here's my post on it).

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videolottery

Hey so it’s come to my attention that this account is stealing my posts from like 2 years ago? Super odd behavior. Why are you trying to engagement farm on tumblr?

Not everyone can easily come up with ideas for things to post every day

longshrimp

then just don't??

you obviously dont have 100+ followers and need to keep them happy

videolottery

i didnt realize the situation you were in and i apologize for the callout

can youguys do me a favor and send a lot of hate mail to this user

nando161mando

jacketslutjayse

Source

The rise of androgyny and unisex fashion in the 1970s was apparently responsible for the introduction of a sex marker in passports.

milf--adjacent

Oh wow so me saying "no government documentation should ever include a gender marker for any reason" has been right all along. For exactly the reason I stated when people were giving me shit for not supporting x markers on documents.

qqchurch

the Ice War on Europa...

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somestrangeangels

I have posted before about how sometimes well-meaning attempts at running D&D without some of the more unfortunate dynamics can often backfire but in a way where most people don't even register it backfiring. Because when you take the step of "oh D&D's various 'evil humanoids' don't just exist in a vacuum and given the renfaire colonialism on display it's kind of impossible not to read them as somewhat racialized" many people will then go "okay but we still need some people who player characters should be allowed to kill guilt-free, so let's replace 'orcs' with 'bandits' because killing bad criminal people is perfectly ideologically neutral." At that point it's like "okay so your characters are no longer the racist kill squad, now they're just the Tough on Crime Vigilantes."

But I feel I should make clear that D&D the game itself is not exactly at fault here: like, okay, it is sort of at fault in the sense that it is a game of fantasy killing people with swords and magic. And it is easier for people to accept the killing with people with swords and magic part when they can imagine that their characters are at least to a degree justified. That is sort of just built into the game (and the game has built into its lore varying levels of making the fantasy of killing certain types of guy justifiable).

But D&D is not at fault for making people go "okay so it's bad when you kill orcs simply because they're orcs. It's better when you kill people who are bandits, who are a class of evil criminals where killing them is actually wholesome and sensible." Like, yeah, most people probably don't think about it that deeply, but the reason people don't think about it that deeply is ultimately ideological.

And the ideology is basically "it is bad to be racist but it's good to be a tough on crime vigilante."

krongbly

I don't disagree with this post but I do think there's an important element being left out here which is that 9 times out of 10 players are engaging in combat primarily as a form of self defense. Most of the time it's less of "we can kill these people because they're criminals and that makes it ideologically neutral" and more "these NPCs are trying to kill us and the most effective way to stop them right now is to reduce their hit points to 0 which, if they fail their death saves, means they will die."

I think "vigilantes tough on crime" is actually kind of a bad descriptor for how most parties operate. This definitely varies wildly from table to table but I think for the *average* table there's honestly a solid chance that either your players are friends with at least one criminal NPC or even that they themselves are criminals. There's even an entire class who's fantasy is "criminal."

I don't think the self defense point actually holds true in a meaningful sense.

In older editions of D&D, which were much clearer on the expected gameplay being "go into the dungeon and steal the stuff," there wasn't really this layer there. The rules for combat were generally quite harsh on player characters so combat was certainly something they didn't want to get into too casually, but ultimately the player characters were just going into the dang monsters' house and stealing their stuff. The monsters were arguably the ones acting in self-defense (but they're evil so who cares).

But in the WotC editions the self-defense justification is still fraught because modern D&D especially is an action game. It's a game where characters mostly have access to various methods of visiting violence upon their environs and where the gameplay itself rewards them for violence, because combat is the main source of experience as written in all WotC editions of the game and characters primarily grow in combat effectiveness.

The self-defense angle I feel is not supported by the game's rules itself, but is more of a narrative contrivance introduced by groups to make their characters feel more heroic.

My friend @tenleaguesbeneath once described it as, and I am paraphrasing, "characters hunting things for sport but the things attack them first so they can claim self-defense." Characters want to get into fights (because that's where the rewards are), characters primarily grow in terms of being able to get into cooler fights, but because getting into fights on purpose isn't heroic there's an angle of "those goblins started it" to make the characters feel more heroic.

I don't think this is a bad thing per se. It is one way to make the power fantasy of D&D feel less like the characters are violent thugs and more like heroes. But like it is basically a group of mercenaries going into a warzone, they can't really say "well we didn't really expect to have to kill anyone on our mission, but sadly, circumstances conspired against us." Fighting is what the game wants them to do and I don't think anyone is wrong for wanting to portray the player characters as engaging in self-defense, but it's only self-defense through a very crooked lens imo.

lumpout

Linking this to the modern "revenge porn" action movies like John Wick and Nobody.

The self defense/revenge motivation is a fig leaf for indulging in gleeful violence. While modern DnD fictionally positions the party as the righteous castle-doctrine empowered heroes; we should at the very least be critical of why it is doing that. It's functionally identical to the fantasy of "what would I do if a bunch of terrorists/bank robbers burst into the room?" Just because there's an in-universe reason as to why you get have to murder all those people in flashy and fun ways does not mean that it isn't what you (the player) sat down at the table to do.

jambeast

And the key thing to remember is that violence is awesome (in fiction) and we don't have to justify it to anyone.

brazenautomaton

Yeah this post is horseshit and the ideology behind it is soul poison. If you demand a Maoist struggle session for your D&D campaign for its ideological implications then 387.44 million miles of wafer-thin circuits is not enough to express the extent to which you need to go fuck yourself. The assumptions and demands you make are based in a concept of human experience that only exists to serve your politics. This is not how human beings engage with art, this is not how human beings engage with stories, this is not how human beings engage with games. You are suffering under this monstrous worldview and you are monstrous in attempting to inflict it on others.

You are not revealing a secret pro-vigilantism argument, you unfathomably vast stumblefuck. You are revealing that you have conditioned other people to be afraid of speaking up against you and they're unable to fight your openly malevolent bad-faith attacks, so when you threaten them with Unpersoning for some game mechanic or setting detail you don't understand, instead of standing up for themselves and telling you to fuck off they shuffle to the closest equivalent of it that they think won't get them yelled at.

I'm sorry you feel that way. I personally enjoy playing D&D and thinking about stuff like this. :)

brazenautomaton

I'm sure you do. I'm sure this is so natural to you that it does not even register as a coherent or specific thing that you're doing. I'm sure you think this is just the way everyone looks at everything.

But if at any point in your entire life you ever, under any circumstances, believe yourself to have revealed something about someone's moral ideology based on how they engage with a game, you need to go fuck yourself inside-out.

yourtoradorasextendedwarranty

I'm sorry you've gotten that impression from my post but that couldn't be further from what I actually think. However, you seem like a genuinely unpleasant person so I don't think there's any point in keeping up this discussion for either of our sakes. :)

brazenautomaton

Did the following words come out of you yes or no:

The reason people don't think about it that deeply is ultimately ideological.

And the ideology is basically "it is bad to be racist but it's good to be a tough on crime vigilante."

cookingwithroxy

Unfortunately Brazen I think the simple factor here is that your vitriolic reaction gave OP an excuse to absolutely ignore the counterpoint being made.

The classic D&D part being a big example, considering the scenario is 'Dangerous creatures/violent criminals have nested in the (ruins of a fallen town/keep)/(local forest)/(nearby cave system) and are posing a constant and ongoing threat to everyone in the area. And you, as a hero, can gain renown/save people/profit off of dealing with them.'

The concept that everything there is harmless and safe and nobody is doing anything bad until the adventurers show up is a complete fabrication and I can absolutely say this and base this on the over 100 copies of Dragon Magazine I have sitting in a bin amongst the other things I have collected since my mother bought me the original Red Box set when I was NINE.

The need to define a world entirely and utterly divorced from our own by the standards of political theory that even on THIS world are actually rather questionable? Has nothing to do with 'issues in the text' and everything to do with 'if everything does not reflect my politics, my politics have no weight'.

But again, your vitreol si what OP is using to ignore this rather pointed fact.

siryouarebeingmocked

>Linking this to the modern "revenge porn" action movies like John Wick and Nobody.

In John Wick and Nobody, the revenge fantasy is presented as toxic and harmful to the people engaging in it, and those around them, and occasionally innocent bystanders.

Heck, the villain of the second Wick film uses avengance as an excuse to silence the guy he forced to kill his sister, and it backfires.

>It's functionally identical to the fantasy of "what would I do if a bunch of terrorists/bank robbers burst into the room?"

The stereotypical DND adventurer party are usually the aggressors, not the defenders.

You're stretching extremely far to draw a false equivalence to People You Dislike, without any actual criticism of either.

And I don't think you actually understand either group.

I don't think "how would I react if my life was under serious and immediate threat from assailants?" Says Anything™ about the people asking the question, despite your

Sad reality of this entire post is the fact that DnD is a game meant for the purpose of escapism. What we have from OP is the classic, "If you play videogames and kill people in the game, you are probably actually a bad person. Therefore you need to reflect why you are a bad person and come to the right ideological views. Become enlightened just like me :D.

Thing is, and it will always piss me off, Brazens vitriol here is warranted. OP is the type of person that we in the nerd community call a tourist. A person that comes into a medium and tries to change HOW you are SUPPOSED to enjoy something, or just attempts to cry-bully their way into changing the medium itself. Which with DnD you have seen a lot of over the years. Nope it's not Evil Gods that corrupted beings, they are actually all sad humanoids that just didn't know any better. They are sympathetic you know. :)

Get the hell out of our hobbies. Seriously. Gatekeeping is a good thing and people like OP will always enforce that in me.

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

Sorry, you're just illiterate actually! I don't think any of the things you ascribe to me! :)

I think D&D as a text has many issues, many of them tracing back to the people who wrote it and the context it was written in. But the fact is, I don't think D&D is a cursed tome that will turn people evil for engaging with it, because I'm not a fucking idiot! It is, in fact, possible for me to engage with things which have ideological underpinnings that I don't personally agree with. The entire point of this post is to say that people shouldn't need to flagellate themselves over finding a way to play D&D in a way that is morally and ideologically pure, because to me such an exercise is ultimately fruitless and doesn't sound like a good time at all.

I am capable of grappling with the fact that D&D as a text is messy but it still deserves to be engaged with on its own terms as a game and a piece of art. You and the other folks in this discussion reacting with vitriol to admittedly hyperbolically and cheekily expressed critical thought about the text is, in my opinion, much worse for engaging with the game as a piece of art than being willing to admit "yeah there's parts of it that suck but it's not the Evil Amulet."

That people like you draw the conclusion that anyone engaging with any form of critical reading of a piece of media must be a tourist or making a claim about the moral standing of the people who engage with it to me simply stands as a testament that you have been wounded by discourse to the point where you jump at shadows at the slightest provocation. This is why I do not, generally, engage with people like you in dialogue. Because there is nothing for me to say other than "Actually I don't think that and the only reason you'd come to that conclusion is by imagining a person to get mad at and not being willing to engage in even a bit of critical thought."

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animentality

innerchildabortionclinic

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estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

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