Interpreters Say They’re Vexed by ‘Trumpese’: If We Translated Trump Verbatim, ‘We Would…Sound Stupid’ | Mediaite: "“He is so overconfident and yet so logically unconvincing that my interpreter friends and I often joke that if we translated his words as they are, we would end up making ourselves sound stupid,” said Chikako Tsuruta — an interpreter for CNN, ABC, and CBS — in an interview with the Japan Times.
But one retired interpreter has no sympathy for Tsuruta and others charged with translating the President. Kumiko Torikai, a professor emeritus at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, believes that it’s not proper for Tsuruta, or any other interpreter, to alter translations just because they fear they will come off unintelligent.
“If Trump is not making sense, you don’t get to make sense, either,” Torikai said. “If his language is coarse, that’s the way you translate him,”"
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