[governance] Bangladesh Govt blocks YouTube

[Norbert Klein]

On 9/18/2012 8:14 PM, Matthias Pfeifer Freshmail wrote:
> Hello Fahd.
> Can you please go deeper in that translation issue? This would be very 
> interesting i guess.
> Thank you.
> Matthias.

My example is not strictly similar, but also an uproar created by a 
translation.

Some years ago I translated a newspaper article into English in October, 
which was originally published in Khmer in August. It was a fairly 
precise description of an alleged case of accepting bribes by a higher 
level official.

I was called to court several times and it took quite some explanation 
and effort to get me off the hook. What had happened?

When the article was published in a newspaper in Khmer, nobody cared, 
because accusations of corruption were made frequently - and there was a 
widely held opinion that corruption - payments under the table - are 
common, and nobody can do much about it anyway.

But after my English translation was published, one of the local foreign 
embassies wanted to know what was going on - and only then the "accused" 
thought it was time to do some explaining: first of all that I should 
withdraw what I had published. But it was only a translation...

That may mean - for this stupid film - as long as it was in English, it 
did not catch much attention. But after there was a translated Arab 
language version, some more people saw what it was - and many others who 
had not seen it followed those who had seen it in their own language.


Norbert Klein
nhklein at gmx.net
http://www.thinking21.org
Phnom Penh/Cambodia
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