cm0002@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 13 days agoThe Polish are safe at lastslrpnk.netimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up13arrow-down1imageThe Polish are safe at lastslrpnk.netcm0002@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 13 days agomessage-square13fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agohttps://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150202-the-greatest-mistranslations-ever
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoNot the Reddit link and not OP but https://people.com/jimmy-carter-1977-poland-trip-nsfw-mistranslation-8643866
minus-squarehOrni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoIt would be nice to know, what exactly he said, as I am Polish.
minus-squarepfm@scribe.disroot.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoNothing very bad IMO 🤷 See for yourself: https://www.newsweek.pl/historia/wpadki-w-dyplomacji-wizyta-jimmyego-cartera-w-polsce/yyl67cx
minus-squarewieson@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoThe important bits: “I left the United States this morning” => “left America for good to fly to Poland” ‘I have come to learn your opinions and understand your desires for the future’ => ‘I have come here because I desire you’.
Source?
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150202-the-greatest-mistranslations-ever
Not the Reddit link and not OP but
https://people.com/jimmy-carter-1977-poland-trip-nsfw-mistranslation-8643866
It would be nice to know, what exactly he said, as I am Polish.
Nothing very bad IMO 🤷 See for yourself: https://www.newsweek.pl/historia/wpadki-w-dyplomacji-wizyta-jimmyego-cartera-w-polsce/yyl67cx
The important bits:
“I left the United States this morning” => “left America for good to fly to Poland”
‘I have come to learn your opinions and understand your desires for the future’ => ‘I have come here because I desire you’.
That screenshot.