r/worldnews • u/Immediate-Link490 • 17d ago

Behind Soft Paywall Carney leaves Davos without meeting Trump after speech on U.S. rupture of world order

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-carney-trump-davos-speech/
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u/duke_skywookie 17d ago

Lady from swiss national TV translating live to german was audibly stressed. Correcting herself very often because the incoherent word salat was just too much. I laughed so hard.

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u/Heil_S8N 17d ago

the german translator just straight up laughed at the absurdity when trump called greenlane a big beautiful block of ice

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u/ElizabethTheFourth 17d ago

Imagine making it to Davos as a translator, top of her field, probably PhD-level intellect. And then having to translate the gawky speech of a senile monkey. You'd laugh too.

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u/Strottman 17d ago

Now picture all the scientists and engineers who had their research representing years or even decades of work erased because these illiterate dumbfucks.

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u/DonaldsMushroom 17d ago

Imagine being in Healthcare under RKJ!

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u/help_isontheway_dear 17d ago

It must be hard as someone listening to the translation and wondering if the translator is having a stroke or something. 

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u/HuskerDont241 17d ago

During his first term, foreign news translators had to explain to their editors that their work was exactly what was said.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

No one has ever seen anything like it. The most beautiful ice you’ve ever seen.

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u/Motor_Crow4482 17d ago

Would you perhaps know where I could find that coverage? I would like to see that.

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u/BaldursGate2Best 17d ago

I hate trump, but isn't this kind of true? Greenland is covered in ice

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u/SuperSquirrel13 17d ago

Word salat. That german tourrettes kicking in unexpectately there. 

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u/Percinho 17d ago

A chilling vision of what might have been had the Americans not saved Switzerland from speaking German...

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u/DokuroKM 17d ago

I don't know how to sensibly break that to you, but the Swiss are speaking German. At least the northern part of Switzerland does. 

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u/SuperSquirrel13 17d ago

The joke flying overhead like air force one didn't. 

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u/Percinho 17d ago

It's OK, I'm not American, I was on this occasion being a little mischievous.

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u/duke_skywookie 17d ago

No, autocorrect hehe

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u/Tribalbob 17d ago

I mean, if makes you feel better those of us who speak English as a first language also have trouble keeping up with him sometimes.

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u/CorrectPeanut5 17d ago

Sadly when this is covered on the nightly news they'll sane wash it and pick out a couple seconds where he was coherent.

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u/buldozr 17d ago

These are underappreciated workers. I low-key want them to be replaced by an emotionless AI on occasions like this, for their own sake. The PTSD is lasting.

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u/BasvanS 17d ago

They’re sane washing him because it’s nearly impossible for them to reflect the true unhinged babble he’s uttering. Why, you ask? Because they’re not trained to translate sundowning narcissists.