Reading this interview with Trump’s French translator got me thinking about how Trump’s German translators are dealing with…um, yeah…all the things Trump’s translators have to deal with. They may be enjoying it – someone definitely had fun writing the headline: Trump erklärt im Bild-Interview, warum er weiter Twitter verwendet: “Ich kann bing, bing, bing machen.” (Trump… Continue reading Trump: translation and back-translation
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“All Quiet on the Western Front”
I don’t want to write too much about Mr. Trump – other people are doing an excellent job of that elsewhere – but I would like to comment on his alleged favorite book, Im Westen nichts Neues by Erich Maria Remarque, known to us as All Quiet on the Western Front. Now, has he actually read this book,… Continue reading “All Quiet on the Western Front”