Posts from serafina in thread „Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House“

Quote from Porte

Less racista than in the 60 and the 20 or KKK does not mean not racista. Does it? Calling Anil Dash a racista is ironic. The MAJORITY voted Trump. The problem is not Trump. We the people. Trump believes he is not a racist. Typical racists believe that they are not racists.

Spot on!

I think Porte hit it. Racists will say it is just the way it is, just look for yourself. And then add examples of how poorer and less educated people live and blame it on their skin color or ethnicity or religion or culture.

I don't want to hack this thread, so I created a spin-off post for those interested in the linguistic challenge that lies into translating Trump.

You can read it here: Trump in translation: how the latest US President became translators' nightmare

Also the translators' world was hit by the storm. Everybody is discussing how the s- word has been translated in various languages. It is not always possible or easy to find the proper term to convey the vulgarity and the insult with the same intensity.

Today I was translating a survey for a big media company in the United States (I do not know if the survey was designed by a US firm, though) and it asked about the respondent's last vacation destination. The list started as follows:

• Europe
• North America
• South America (including Mexico)

[...]

One day, the world will be know as 'above the [Mexican] wall' or below...

Melania really had to sweat for her paycheck... that's all I can say! His collaborators might be with him for a mandate or two at worst, but she is in there forever.