Here are the 5 stories Carol Hills and I selected as our top five language-related stories for the past month or two:
5. The sad tale of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s translator at the United Nations General Assembly. Gaddafi spoke for 94 minutes, 79 minutes longer than he was alloted. At 90 minutes, his translator appeared [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Africa’
October 9, 2009
Gaddafi’s translator, Swedish fury at UNESCO, and Nazi slogans in English
September 29, 2009
Nasty speech in the Netherlands, bitter truths in South Africa, and goofy government speech in Denmark
After Joe Wilson’s “you lie!”, after Kanye West at the MTV awards, after Serena Williams’ outburst at the US Open, you may think: enough already with nasty speech! Well, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet. This week, a report on a series of Dutch cartoon that are offensive – really offensive. Deliberately so, according to the [...]