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Trumpslation: Why Donald Trump's words give translators so much trouble

Recent challenge was to translate president's inappropriate remarks to French first lady

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Severine E Hubscher-Davidson | The Conversation
Much has already been written on the difficulty that translators and interpreters have when translating Donald Trump’s speeches and messages into other languages. The president’s frequent mangling of the English language has left interpreters and translators scratching their heads the world over.
The most recent challenge for translators was how to translate the president’s inappropriate comments to the French first lady, Brigitte Macron, when he visited France to celebrate Bastille Day. French translators struggled to find the right words to express that Emmanuel Macron’s wife was “in such good physical shape!” as they worried about

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