I hope the aide who "helped" translate is fired.

Awkward

It's not so much Hillary as it is the State Department. And they slip up like this alot. Embarrassingly so.

What they need is a cunning linguist.

She's just a dumb coont. That's all. A power-hungry, do-nothing coont.

Русские не заботят для Chotchkies!

Jeez how stupid is that.

I assume Clinton doesn't speak Russian, so I don't know how this is her fault, exactly. She probably relied on a translator who obviously did a bad job; how was she to know that?

I'm pretty sure it's the "overcharge" button that was mistranslated into English.

Good idea. There's certainly no pre-existing tension between Russians and Americans regarding red buttons.

this is why you don't use babelfish for official state business.

burndtdan: this is why you don't use babelfish for official state business.

это почему вы не используете babelfish для официального народного предприятия.

/this why you do not use babelfish for the official people's enterprise.

Snarfangel: burndtdan: this is why you don't use babelfish for official state business.

это почему вы не используете babelfish для официального народного предприятия.

/this why you do not use babelfish for the official people's enterprise.



i had a small house of brokerage on wall street. many days no business comes to my hut. jimmy has fear? a thousand times no. i never doubted myself for a minute, for i knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung.

glorious sunset of my heart was fading. soon the super karate monkey death car would park in my space. but jimmy has fancy plans, and pants to match. the monkey clown horrible karate, round and yummy like a cute small baby chick, would eat the donkey.

Перегрузка...

Idiots, that's not even a verb.

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translated in 1970 to continue service in city Volzhsk where I now and
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understand Russian of measurement of height and weights? Also I have
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want, that you have told to me a little about yourself that I could
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your answer. Ekaterina.

Snarfangel: burndtdan: this is why you don't use babelfish for official state business.

это почему вы не используете babelfish для официального народного предприятия.

/this why you do not use babelfish for the official people's enterprise.

That may literally be "that's why", but there's another word for that - поэтому.

And business...that's basically just transliterated. бизнес (biznes).

burndtdan: ...the opulence of buffalo dung.

Feel my skills. Donkey! Donkey! Donkey! Donkey!

It's really too bad Dr. Rice left the office before her shining opportunity to get something right.

At least it didn't say "Launch"...

FYI Mods...the FARK main page appears to be FARKED.

This on top of Obama giving the Prime Minister of our closest allies a set of DVDs as a present. Christ. Shouldn't there be somebody in charge of this stuff?

So we can look forward to 4 years of corny-ass gestures like this? I'm buying guns-n-ammo.

deltabourne: This on top of Obama giving the Prime Minister of our closest allies a set of DVDs as a present. Christ. Shouldn't there be somebody in charge of this stuff?

No kidding, I wouldn't be surprised if they sever all diplomatic ties immediately...

*rolls eyes*

Jebus. Even without the bad translation that was a dumb idea.

ferretman
FYI Mods...the FARK main page appears to be FARKED.

Not to threadjack, but I second this. Had to switch over to Chrome to get in, firefox is a no go.

I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for ever' last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed. Now let's get this thing on the hump - we got some flyin' to do.

Doh! I wonder if the Russians have a name for this kind of mistranslation. Kind of like our "engrish."

At least the guy seemed to have a sense of humor about it.

I lust it when this sort of thing happens.

/using Jimmy Carter's Polish translator

Still better than a stupid box of CDs

OMFG!! What if it's 3 am here in the states and she has her finger on the button??!!11!!

That's TWO international faux pas so far.

One month in and counting...

She's gonna get us all killed!!!

How embarrassing. Oh no, not that translation was incorrect, but the fact that she is using silly props like a red reset button to gesture a willingness to start the relationship over between our two countries. There are no do-over's, lady.

What is this, the second grade? Carrot top would make a better Secretary of State. If this is all we've got, we are in big trouble.

This is what happens when you get your foreign policy from a Staples ad campaign.

Perhaps she was shaken by the sneaker fire at the airport.

Is it any wonder they want to divert attention to some fat white guy on the radio?

Was Obama smart to appoint Hillary Clinton as Sec of State? She seems like she is mucking things up. Was she picked so she could get out into the limelight and so cut herself off at the knees politically so she wouldn't be a political threat in the future at the cost of short term embarrassment?

That is so Bush league.

burndtdan: this is why you don't use babelfish for official state business.

They should have. I tried it, and I get the word "возврат", which is translated back as "the recovery."

/idiots in the State Dept., every damn one of 'em.

Should have gave him a DVD of Rocky IV instead.

/We can all change!

The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten

Are we at defcon 5 yet Butthurt Fark Independent?

//yawn

worlds tallest midget 2009-03-06 05:26:58 PM
How embarrassing. Oh no, not that translation was incorrect, but the fact that she is using silly props like a red reset button to gesture a willingness to start the relationship over between our two countries. There are no do-over's, lady.

What is this, the second grade? Carrot top would make a better Secretary of State. If this is all we've got, we are in big trouble.

How is he on his back taxes? Maybe they can get him a gig at State.

5_second_rule: Are we at defcon 5 yet Butthurt Fark Independent?

//yawn

Well, an idiot with a dictionary and no clue about what he's doing should be charged for high treason. Things like this threaten the precarious balance between world powers, inching us closer to nuclear holocaust. Why couldn't Hillary have settled for something that could've bridged the gap between nations instead, such as giving the premier of another state a backrub!?

I dunno, maybe "reset" IS Russian for "recharge" or "overcharge". Kind of like "wealth" in Chinese also means "government position" or "official".

Some countries have pretty duplicitous governments. Make ours look like a 5th grade student council.

Eta kooram nah smech

Изменить можно полагать дюйм Идиоты.

flannelled fool: Is it any wonder they want to divert attention to some fat white guy on the radio?

Обсуждение сверх.

"Sorry, I was in kind of a hurry."

Almost as stupid as the time Jimmy Carter gave a speech in Poland and tried to say in Polish how how much he loved them. Mistranslation had him saying he wanted to Fark them up the pooper.