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From the Language Log blog.

It seemed like a good idea at the time

The child is the only sane person here

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'Nothing has happened' the television lady kept repeating.

This is what Cardinal Sarah was talking about!

Security Guard Arrested For Removing Man From Women’s Bathroom by Peter Hasson

Gateway Pundit May 19, 2016

A female security guard working at a Washington, D.C. grocery store was arrested Monday afternoon for physically escorting a man out of the women’s restroom after he refused to leave because he identifies as a woman.

The shopper — a young, African-American male who identified himself as Ebony Belcher to local news outlets — reportedly passed the security guard on his way into the women’s restroom at a Giant grocery store in Northeast D.C.

After seeing Belcher walk into the women’s restroom, the security guard followed him in and ordered the man to leave. When he refused, the security guard had to physically escort him out of the women’s restroom.

Cuban exiles in Florida say that Fidel Castro has died. Again.

Cuban exiles in Miami say they detect tension among close Castro family members and military circles.

Actually, EFE.com said exactly:

El exilio cubano en Miami ha detectado "tensión" entre familiares próximos a Fidel Castro y "círculos militares" en Cuba por los numerosos rumores que se han desatado en las últimas horas sobre la muerte del expresidente cubano.

Let's translate ourselves. It's fun. 

The exile Cuban in Miami has detected "tension" among family close to Fidel Castro and "circles military" in Cuba by the numerous rumors that have been untied in the last hours over the death of the ex-president Cuban.

Spanish goes like this in my mind:

But you get the idea. We should say "unhinged," "untethered," "unleashed" or "flying around" instead of "untied." 

But not again! Fidel Castro died again? Oh, no. 

There's more. 

Fuentes del exilio consultadas por EFE aseguraron hoy que la información que llega desde La Habana revela "tensión" entre los estamentos militares, así como en personas "vinculadas" a Fidel Castro por "nexos sanguíneos".

There are so many cognitives it is not even funny, and it is very repeaty, the second paragraph to the first. Like hieroglyphics, redundancy for clarity and for aesthetics, I suppose. You must take it in chunks, then flip it around. It reminds me of doing so many backflips off a diving board that dives straight in then seems unnatural.

Back to the second paragraph. 

Sources of exile consulted by EFE (an international news agency created by Spain's former minister of press and propaganda with 40 U.S. employees represented by News Media Guild, so you know this comes from Spain.) they assured that the information that came from Havana reveals "tension" among the establishment military, as well as people "linked" to Fidel Castro by "ties blood" 

This is where a touch of interpretation skill come in. It's why you wait to the end of the sentence. There are better ways of saying such things in the target language than straight word for word translation. It is why there is a pause when speeches are vocalized, why it appears that interpreters are behind. If they are not behind, if they are ahead as they are sometimes in sign, then you know they are working from script. And that is disconcerting because it challenges how you would do the interpreting. 

Again, in natural English: 

Exile sources consulted by EFE said Wednesday that the information coming from Havana reveals tension among the military establishment, as well as people related to Fidel Castro by blood ties. 

Rumors of Fidel Castro's death are like the Chevy Chase's old SNL Weekend Update catchphrase.

And in other news, Generalissimo Fidel Castro is still dead!  

EFE.com

http://www.efe.com/efe/noticias/espana/mundo/exilio-cubano-detecta-tension-entre-familiares-fidel-castro/1/4/2506589

Deportation Deportes

"Obama to Hispanics: We won’t deport relatives because you enroll in ObamaCare."

President Obama on Tuesday sought to assure legal immigrants that they can sign up for ObamaCare without worrying that “the immigration people” will come for family members who are in the country illegally.

It's a question of presidential priorities these days. Never mind the laws. 'I want, I need people to sign on to my Health Care system and I don't care where they come from. Draft them if you have to. Lets get those numbers up people', I can easily imagine Obama saying.

In an interview with Univision Deportes, a Spanish-language sports radio show, Obama said immigration officials won’t have access to the personal information that consumers provide when signing up for healthcare on the new exchanges.

“Well, the main thing for people to know is that any information you get, you know, asked with respect to buying insurance, does not have anything to do with … the rules governing immigration,” Obama said. “And you know, you can qualify if you’re a legal resident, if you are … legally present in the United States.

As the president of the United States I'm telling you I call the balls and strikes. I say who is safe and who is out. I'm the sole arbiter; I'm the controlling legal authority, don't you know who I 'am?

“You know, if you have a family where some people are citizens or legally here, and others are not documented, the immigration people will never get that information.” read more

Here is the thing that caught my attention, yesterday, about the implications of this article, which aside from Obama's desperation tone... isn't it cringeworthy, to have a president appearing to be willing to say anything, to sell insurance? The president of the United States!
Aside from that (as if it wasn't enough) didn't our government promise to share information amongst the agencies as, at the very least, one of the ways to ensure against another 9/11?

On the other hand, Obama didn't build that... let somebody else make that happen.

"Draft: Translation as a Performing Art"

"I compare it to walking down a highway, if ordinary reading is driving at 60 m.p.h. And it seems, sometimes, when you’re translating, measuring, and recreating everything you read in another language, as if you can actually leave the highway and walk off into the landscape. Walk around the trees and buildings and see what’s on the other side, how they’re constructed."

"People talk about untranslatable words, but in a way, there’s no such thing. It may take three words, or an entire sentence, or even an interpolated paragraph, but any word can be translated. Short of swelling a book into an encyclopedia, however, there is no way of dealing with the larger problem: untranslatable worlds."

"In an interview with The Paris Review, Bill said something very fine: he explained that as a professor at Bard, he was sometimes asked what other departments his classes could be cross-referenced to, and he suggested performing arts. After all, a translation is a performance (whether in another medium or another language) of a written text."

 

NYT