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cosmogyros:

kimbureh:

freckles-a-constellation:

teaboot:

angryraptor13:

teaboot:

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teaboot:

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

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.

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oh my god

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.

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

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).

libraford:

theautisticschizo:

sys-at-civi:

psychosis needs to lose its negative connotation, its a thing that happens. you are far closer to psychotic episodes than you think and we need to all know how to deal with them properly

I always say that psychosis is a natural part of human experience or state of mind. And guess what, non psychotics get MAD when I say that. “No, its not natural or normal at all! Dont normalize it!” Guess what happens when you haven’t slept in a few days? Psychosis. Guess what can happen when you’re too stressed? Psychosis. Guess what can happen from physical conditions? Psychosis. Psychosis is the same type of normal that any other negative state of mind is. Someone experiencing depression due to circumstances? Normal. Someone dissociating during a stressful event? Normal. Psychosis isn’t different. ANYONE can experience psychosis and it doesn’t even have to be a disorder. Psychotic disorders are disorders due to the frequency and intensity of psychosis.

People need to stop demonizing normal human experiences

I had psychosis as a symptom of PMDD prior to my hysterectomy and while I have episodes less frequently and less intensely, I still get them because they are a common occurrence of brain activity.

When I started openly referring to it as ‘psychosis’ and not 'anxiety’ or 'paranoia’ or other related but not quite the same terms, I scared people.

I remember one instance where I was talking about it and the woman I was talking to scooted her chair back two whole feet to get away from me like I was gonna bite. And that… hurt. We were having a conversation about mental illness- what kinds of symptoms and such we each deal with. And instead of calling it 'uncontrollable crying jags and prolonged spirals that pair with bouts of unreality’ i called it by its name.

And that made her afraid.

Roughly 3% of people experience a psychotic episode in their lifetime. It would probably be more if we had better education on the subject.

wyrddogs:

I attended a dog’s quinceañera today. About twenty people attended, there was cake for the people, cupcakes for the dogs, a pinata with dog treats, carnitas with tortillas, music, the works.

The guest of honor is a bit senile so she didn’t really know what was going on but she enjoyed being passed around laps and snarfed down her cupcake. She is very loved.

Not posting a photo of her because she’s not my dog so here is a sketch.

grfld54:

taste my waveform sword idiot

swingsetindecember:

i feel like men got too comfortable directing 3 hr movies. like that’s manspreading on a cultural level. go back to 90 min movies. i have other things to do this evening. wrap it up charles dickens, you aren’t being paid by the word

ficklesobsessions:

If you take one thing from Dolly Parton’s life and example, let it be that getting older doesn’t mean you have to diminish and slowly disappear.

Amid all the challenges and tragedies she stayed just as kind, creative, strong, generous, tenderhearted, funny and playful as ever. What a powerful example she set.

She never stopped being a rhinestone bombshell because that’s what she wanted to be. It was never time for her to stop being camp, or glam, and start being just little old Aunt Granny all the time. She wrote her songs, cracked her jokes and she valued herself and her work and her joy so immensely.

What an inspiration. You don’t have to anticipate melting into nothingness when you hit 60. You don’t have to believe you’ll become bitter, narrowminded, and meanspirited just because it seems like so many older people do. You don’t have to give up all the things that nurture and feed your spark because it’s time to… what? Be a little old lady?

Hell no.

You can, in fact, be unapologetically you right up until the moment you die.

transsexualpuffin:

cheminsdudesir:

were–ralph:

And so it shall be!

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please for the love of god don’t buy shit from starbucks. brian niccol has fucking ruined this company. turned it from a fun place to work into a soul sucking black hole of misery and constant turnover.

if you want better coffee for the same price or cheaper go to a local cafe or, better yet, find a local roaster and start making your own coffee at home. pourover, french press, moka pot are all cheap to start and it’s better than the charred stale shit we sell at starbucks. syrups are easy and fun to make and cheap to buy premade. the most expensive thing will be the coffee grinder and even that is affordable compared to getting a $9 coffee every fucking day.

starbucks is among the worst offenders for union busting and labor law violations. as a company it brags about being ethical but is anything but. if i could quit i would already be gone. just do us a favor and get your coffee from somewhere else.

owochimuwu:

owochimuwu:

If you saw me recreationally vaccinating homeschooled children with blow darts then you should be thanking me, no? Relax a little. Blow darts are cool

You are just jealous of my ethical human safari

roughtradesaint:

virtualmosshroom: