A Japanese translator says people in her profession are having difficulty translating President Trump’s often disorganized and colorful language. In an interview with the Japan Times, Chikako Tsuruta, who covers Trump-related news as an interpreter for CNN, ABC and CBS, said Trump’s…<\/b>
A Japanese translator says people in her profession are having difficulty translating President Trump ‘s often disorganized and colorful language.
In an interview with the Japan Times , Chikako Tsuruta, who covers Trump-related news as an interpreter for CNN, ABC and CBS, said Trump’s language and \u00ab\u00a0‘factually dubious\u00a0\u00bb assertions make translating his words a challenge.
\u00ab\u00a0He rarely speaks logically, and he only emphasizes one side of things as if it were the absolute truth,\u00a0\u00bb said Tsuruta. \u00ab\u00a0There are lots of moments when I suspected his assertions were factually dubious. \u00a0\u00bb
She said Trump is \u00ab\u00a0so overconfident and yet so logically unconvincing,\u00a0\u00bb that she and her \u00ab\u00a0often joke that if we translated his words as they are, we would end up making ourselves sound stupid. \u00a0\u00bb
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Tsuruta isn’t the only translator who says covering Trump is a struggle.
French interpreter B\u00e9reng\u00e8re Viennot told the Las Angeles Review of Books that \u00ab\u00a0Trump is not easy to translate. \u00a0\u00bb
She explained that Trump’s vocabulary \u00ab\u00a0is limited, his syntax is broken; he repeats the same phrases over and over, forcing the translator to follow suit. \u00a0\u00bb
Viennot added that French is a \u00ab\u00a0very structured and logical language\u00a0\u00bb that \u00ab\u00a0reveals the poor quality of his language and, consequently, of his thought. \u00a0\u00bb
\u00ab\u00a0@DWStweets should return every last penny she was paid by DNC… \u00ab\u00a0<\/p>\n