3/26/2023 0 Comments Trump biff tannen meme![]() ![]() Trump is the logical culmination of a forty year romance the Republican Party has had with stupidity (their adventure with wickedness is of longer date as Richard Nixon would confirm). Elle avait du monde au balcon, la guerre civile? Elle était là pourquoi, la guerre civile ? La guerre civile, elle a eu lieu pourquoi. It would take a genius to translate it – or a serious head wound. Even stupid Anglophone people don’t speak like this. It’s arrestingly weird and underdeveloped. ![]() It’s what an extremely slow three year old child with emotional problems, a wasting illness might say if you held them upside down and beat them with metal rods. I simply cannot describe to French people how weird and scary it sounds in English. I would suggest that this is one of the most untranslatable sentences in history (Mel Brooks used to hold that record with ‘Where did it all go right?’ the central joke from The Producers. I think particularly of a moment when Trump asked blithely ‘Why was there the Civil War?’. Trump's final day : Hey Donald, woof woof ‘It makes no sense in English either, that’s the whole fucking point, assholes’ read all the suicide notes of the tortured interpreters. Mais non, reply the editors, You can’t say that stuff in French. Their painstaking efforts are ALWAYS corrected by busy news editors. It’s hard to make that happen in the language of Racine or Diderot.Īfter having broken their hearts and bled real blood to render the rancid car crash of Trump’s discourse, more pain awaits them. Donald’s rambling inconsequentialism, his error and ignorance, his fucked up syntax, his microscopic vocabulary ( the best ever, tremendous, like no one has ever seen, yuge) they all sound like some horrific David Lynch dream sequence written by a brain-damaged sadist. The burden of faithful reproduction is herculean. Two lunatic geniuses tried to translate faithfully his entire twitter feed and drove themselves half-mad in the process (I love these two, like characters out of some mid-career Tom Stoppard play). Several translators who have translated his discourse for the French press have spoken in broken, haunted terms about the difficulty of the task. Very few French people realise how abjectly thick-headed Trump actually is. ![]()
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