Translator collapses during Gaddafi's speech

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She was slapped in the face two times, I think. She didn't take crap from him until Russian diplomat grew in rage, and yanked her, threw her down the floor, and threw a big punch at her. Believe it or not, Russian diplomat liked ASL until he was not happy what he saw the way terp signed. Russian diplomat thought he was an ASL expert, which he wasn't. That's why he punched her.
 
Gaddafi's abuses:

"Rules specify that UN translators only provide live interpretation for 40 minutes at a time, and they are used to seamless handovers.

But Libya insisted on using its own translators for English and French rather than one of the 25 world-class Arabic translators at the UN. Libyan diplomats said that Colonel Gaddafi would be speaking a dialect on Wednesday that only his staff could understand. In the event, he spoke standard Arabic.

Colonel Gaddafi ended up speaking six times longer than the 15-minute limit set by the UN General Assembly."
 
Barbaro said:
She was slapped in the face two times, I think. She didn't take crap from him until Russian diplomat grew in rage, and yanked her, threw her down the floor, and threw a big punch at her. Believe it or not, Russian diplomat liked ASL until he was not happy what he saw the way terp signed. Russian diplomat thought he was an ASL expert, which he wasn't. That's why he punched her.
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Do you have an update on the aftermath?
 
She tried to sue him, but her lawyer said that it was very difficult to sue a Russian diplomat for reasons like diplomatic immunity. I told my interpreter it was the best way to talk to his Russian ambassador about the incident, but I know my advice was not helpful.
 
Reba said:
Gaddafi's abuses:

"Rules specify that UN translators only provide live interpretation for 40 minutes at a time, and they are used to seamless handovers.

But Libya insisted on using its own translators for English and French rather than one of the 25 world-class Arabic translators at the UN. Libyan diplomats said that Colonel Gaddafi would be speaking a dialect on Wednesday that only his staff could understand. In the event, he spoke standard Arabic.

Colonel Gaddafi ended up speaking six times longer than the 15-minute limit set by the UN General Assembly."
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Yeah, I read that part. Maybe Gaddafi tried to break Fidel Castro's record??? I think Castro gave the speech for four hours?? Crazy...
 
Barbaro said:
She was slapped in the face two times, I think. She didn't take crap from him until Russian diplomat grew in rage, and yanked her, threw her down the floor, and threw a big punch at her. Believe it or not, Russian diplomat liked ASL until he was not happy what he saw the way terp signed. Russian diplomat thought he was an ASL expert, which he wasn't. That's why he punched her.
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Sheesh. I can understand him being mad but abusing her like that is inexcusable. I think he should be charged and thrown in jail for this.
 
Oceanbreeze said:
He's not really that off topic and he's also pretty much right. Our officials spend a good deal of their time pandering to special interest and lobby groups. That's also on both sides, so I'm not picking on Obama specifically. It's just fact and how things are done; sad as it may be.
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Lobbyists have always been a factor in American government. But it has nothing to do with a translator collapsing.
 
jillio said:
Lobbyists have always been a factor in American government. But it has nothing to do with a translator collapsing.
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If it got nothing to do with the topic, why are you still contributing to it? Sometimes it's best to leave the horse dead. I means... you can't get any more hamburgers from it, and the maggots don't even want to touch it any more!

Anyway, back to the interpreter thing...

I am glad that they had the translators on standby to rescue the exhausted one. They probably had them on standby the entire time when they realized he was speaking standard Arabic.
 
Barbaro said:
Yeah, I read that part. Maybe Gaddafi tried to break Fidel Castro's record??? I think Castro gave the speech for four hours?? Crazy...
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The longest-ever UN speech was delivered by V. K. Krishna Menon, who spent nearly eight hours defending India’s position on Kashmir to the Security Council in January 1957.
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Where the heck do you get someone to write you an 8-hour speech???
 
Bramus said:
Where the heck do you get someone to write you an 8-hour speech???
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LOL I doubt he hired them to write his speech. In old times, leaders usually wrote them themselves, but not anymore. I found his speech. http://www.un.int/india/ind29.pdf

It contains 36 pages. I think I can read that quicker. I have read Harry Potter books before.
 
Bramus said:
Where the heck do you get someone to write you an 8-hour speech???
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I'd never write an 8 hour speech. Five minitues top for me. I like to assume that everyone's attention span is as short as mine. :P
 
Bramus said:
Where the heck do you get someone to write you an 8-hour speech???
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I think the excessively long ones are self generated by enormous egos--they don't need professional speech writers to help them. :lol:
 
Reba said:
I think the excessively long ones are self generated by enormous egos--they don't need professional speech writers to help them. :lol:
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Brevity is the soul of wit etcetera. That way is good news for translators as well. :lol:
 
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