-We will never be able to perform a heart transplant,.”says Miss Danica Seleskovitch,who is in charge of the interpreter's school at the University of Paris,"but we must certainly master the terminology well enough to explain it
“We will never be able to perform a heart transplant,” says Miss Danica Seleskovitch, who is in charge of the interpreter’s school at the University of Paris, “but we must certainly master the terminology well enough to explain it
Most interpreters agree that their really unsettling moments come when the speaker makes a joke involving an untranslatable play on words."There is hardly anything people are more sensitive about than the jokes they tell,"Miss Seleskovitch says, "and it is very uncomfortable for everyone when the speaker is overcome with laughter at his own humour and everyone stares at him blankly
Most interpreters agree that their really unsettling moments come when the speaker makes a joke involving an untranslatable play on words. “There is hardly anything people are more sensitive about than the jokes they tell,” Miss Seleskovitch says, “and it is very uncomfortable for everyone when the speaker is overcome with laughter at his own humour and everyone stares at him blankly
In an extreme instance,she once solved this problem by quietly informing the delegates,"The speaker has just made a pun which cannot be translated Please laugh.It would please him very much."To her enormous relief,they did
In an extreme instance, she once solved this problem by quietly informing the delegates, “The speaker has just made a pun which cannot be translated. Please laugh. It would please him very much.” To her enormous relief, they did
It was not until the turn of the century that the interpreting art came into its own.Previously, exchanges between nations were conducted by career diplomats,and almost always in French
It was not until the turn of the century that the interpreting art came into its own. Previously, exchanges between nations were conducted by career diplomats, and almost always in French
With the end of the First World War, heads of state and heads of government met face to face at the peace conference in Versailles and discovered they could communicate only with great difficulty.Conferences that should have ended 】in hours dragged on for days
With the end of the First World War, heads of state and heads of government met face to face at the peace conference in Versailles – and discovered they could communicate only with great difficulty. Conferences that should have ended in hours dragged on for days