Interpreters Say They’re Vexed by ‘Trumpese’: If We Translated Trump Verbatim, ‘We Would…Sound Stupid’
The language used by President Donald Trump has flummoxed people who work with words for a living. Previously, we posted about a New Yorker copy editor who penciled through a Trump speech and barely left even a single word untouched. Some interpreters, it seems, are also vexed by the president’s words — with one hesitant to translate him verbatim out of fear that she will sound foolish.
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