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Simultaneous translation is a difficult job. And then he has to translate words without any meaning. That’s tough. I feel for him.

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I did it for 4 years, and it was pure insanity.

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Boring speech from a boring public speaker. You can tell from how he rambles he’s an old, boring man

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It’s even worse because he thinks he’s charming, so he’s smug and cringe while being old and boring.

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How dare you impugn “the weave”? 🙃

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49 points

4 years. Hopefully.

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Or less if nature takes her course.

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I can only hope more disgruntled citizens will attempt to make that timeframe even shorter.

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Ah, nature has so many mysterious ways.

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And result in president Vance? Nope, absolutely nope.

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6 points

Be the change you wish for!

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I don’t know; Vance is even slimier and has more devout and regressive religious beliefs, so Trump dying actually might make things worse (as satisfying as it might be)

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Yeah, but from a translator’s point of view, he’s probably less frustrating

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I hear ya. But Vance is ineffective with no real charm. He won’t be able to rally the rubes like Trump does. I also don’t think Vance is nearly as slimy as Trump. But that isn’t credit to Vance, it’s an indictment of Trump. HE is still worse than we can possibly imagine. Vance really did at least grow up poor and then serve in the military and THEN shit all over them; but he knows. Trump has no idea and more ego and delusions of superiority than imaginable.

I could be wrong, reasonable people can disagree. Love and respect!

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Schiess is really hard not to guess the meaning of too…

Like, doesn’t matter what else came before it, end a sentence with “es ist schiesse” and everybody gonna know you think something is shit

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It’s a bit difficult to really hear (for me, as a non-native speaker anyway) because he… kind of swallows some of his words, or parts of them. So… and correct me if I’m wrong, I think he says:

“Sag mir, wie lange wollt Ihr bei dem Scheisse bleiben hier?”

Translated to something like: Tell me, how long do you want to stay with this shit? - As in, how long do I have to sit here and listen to this moron?

Can’t really blame him, haha.

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He said, “Sag mal, wie lange wollt ihr bei dem Scheiß bleiben?” He said the problem was that Trump was rambling (this part of the speech was unscripted). Article is in German. Here’s a partial translation by DeepL, tweaked by me:

His interjection should not be interpreted as a political statement. “No, that would be completely wrong. The political content is not the problem,“ says Deja, adding: ”I interpret all the time for people whose political statements I don’t agree with. The problem with Trump was that he suddenly started associating freely or saying the same thing three times in a row. The difficulty when interpreting is following these confusing leaps of thought.” He explains: “If a speaker has organized thoughts, then as soon as the sentence has started, you can roughly guess what will come next. You can keep surfing that wave. But that’s impossible with Trump.”

I believe it, because simultaneous interpreting is really hard, intense work. You have to listen, remember it word for word, understand it, and give an accurate, natural sounding translation pretty much instantly. You have to try to convey the tone, understand cultural differences, and figure out how to say things that just don’t translate well. It’s so much work that interpreters often work in teams so they can relieve each other every 30 minutes or so.

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It must have been his first time. Trump with teleprompter used, it won’t take that long. Trump with no teleprompter, buckle up and settle in because it is going to be a long one.

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