CSPAM quandary: Trump tweeted something we all agree with

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Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

Namely "News Media is the enemy"

And Trump would know, he's an avid consumer of the MSM and he knows nothing about the world, yet is incredibly fearful of it

So what now CSPAM, what now

Now I know Trump meant "news media that is not my personal propaganda machine is the enemy" but still

If you had an infinite amount of Trumps sending an infinite amount of tweets, would one of them eventually start tweeting about truth and justice?

PS> Japanese translator burn:

quote:

�He is so overconfident and yet so logically unconvincing that my interpreter friends and I often joke that if we translated his words as they are, we would end up making ourselves sound stupid,�

# ¿ Feb 18, 2017 16:11

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 10:40

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

quote:

Like Tsuruta, English-Japanese interpreters recall being dumbstruck by Trump�s disregard for logic and facts as well as his unabashed use of a litany of sexist and racist remarks during the election campaign.

This challenge, the likes of which they claim was not an issue when interpreting for renowned orator Barack Obama, Trump�s predecessor, has spotlighted a long-standing dilemma dogging their profession � whether to sanitize the words of a controversial speaker.

Opinions are divided, with some saying Trump�s colorful language should be neutralized, while others are adamant interpreters should not hesitate to translate him exactly as he sounds in English.

The difficulty translating Trump, they say, has little to do with his use of language.

In fact, it is no secret that �Trumpese� � as his phraseology is called � is by and large simple, characterized by repetition, easy grammar and elementary-level vocabulary.

A �readability analysis� of presidential campaign speeches by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University�s Language Technologies Institute (LTI) revealed last March that Trump�s lexical richness was the lowest � at seventh-grade level � of his rival candidates and past U.S. presidents.

The study also described his grammatical level as grade 5.7, the second-worst after George W. Bush, who barely topped the fifth-grade level.

Particularly symbolic of this characteristic, Tsuruta said, was Trump�s inauguration speech, which she said was peppered with everyday vocabulary, perhaps with the exception of �carnage.�

In addition, the businessman uncharacteristically used a teleprompter and read from a script, which made the Jan. 20 speech flow coherently enough, the professor noted.

But it�s when he speaks off-the-cuff, Tsuruta said, that interpreters are most likely to find themselves scratching their heads, with Trump frequently jumping from one topic to another and gravitating toward insults and vulgarities.

Miwako Hibi, a broadcast interpreter of more than 20 years, said it was �very hard� to follow Trump�s logic � or lack thereof � particularly his tendency to mention proper nouns out of context.

She still remembers the dread she felt as she was translating live Trump�s victory speech on Nov. 9, when the president-elect � apropos of nothing � made a reference to �Reince� and �secretariat� without spelling out who and what they are.

�When he suddenly said �Reince is a superstar,� I was literally thrown off. Only after the camera zoomed in on the face of a �Reince� did I realize who Trump was talking about, and I hastily added, for the sake of the audience, that it�s actually �Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman,� � Hibi said.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2017 16:23

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

get that OUT of my face posted:

when is he going to use the justice department to sue cnn

"justice department"

I assume he's going to just whip up a executive order to excommunicate all non-compliant media branches

Things I learned from CNN on Friday when the sound was off at the gym:

White House Chaos

Mitch McConnell took to the podium. He began talking, but something happened to the video feed - it became all fuzzy and split into two images. The image lost all definition, then slowly re-synced itself again. McConnell finished speaking. It then cut to a reporter.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2017 18:35

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

out of the 35k tweets our president has made, there has only been one that is unambiguously amazing

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/258262904091058176

That is pretty amazing

Oh lord, this isn't a tweet but I'm sure CSPAM agrees: antisemitism is bad

Oh, and this is interesting: Ivanka converted to Judaism

# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 19:56

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

Nebakenezzer posted:

That is pretty amazing

Oh lord, this isn't a tweet but I'm sure CSPAM agrees: antisemitism is bad

Oh, and this is interesting: Ivanka converted to Judaism

lol

[the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect executive director} �The president�s sudden acknowledgment of anti-Semitism is a Band-Aid on the cancer of anti-Semitism that has infected his own administration.�

[Sean Spicer:] �It�s ironic that no matter how many times he talks about this that it�s never good enough.�

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 16:28

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

Just in case you were in doubt about this being the bizarro timeline, GW Bush just went on the Today show with the message that Trump should check himself before he wrecks himself. He defended religious tolerance and media independence as vital freedoms in America.

Quick, somebody dredge Fox news, see if they report this

# ¿ Feb 27, 2017 19:57

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 10:40

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

a cyberpunk goose posted:

disagreement will divide us, we must rally around our centrist posters

The Truth is that Trump is not the worst, or the best, he's in the middle, a Dwight D. Eisenhower of a president*

*The mind can vomit, it turns out

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 03:03

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