Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Lost in Translation

We know the best information coming from Iraq comes in Arabic.  If we really want to know what's going on, get the firsthand scoop, we should watch Iraq TV and follow the local news services in the native language.  Those of us who don't speak Arabic but still snarf around to find every tidbit of real news we can find are stuck with Google translations and the results can be hilarious.
For example:

Let's hope Google can spell RV
 I am SO glad Iraq will be in front of the Monetary Enormous
“The economist said Sirwan Kirkuki to Kurdistan News Agency (Rn), said that "the continuation of the opening of international banks in Iraq will work cash by 26% what it is now and will put Iraq in front of the evolution of monetary enormous, especially if the benefit of private banks and government of the mechanism of action of the branches of international banks in the country."

Is it customary to have sexual relations along with electricity projects?
بدء قسم العقود العامة في محافظة الديوانية بالمباشرة بتنفيذ عشرة مشاريع للكهرباء والاتصالات في المحافظة، بكلفة أربعة مليارات دينار ضمن ميزانية تنمية الأقاليم للعام الماضي Start section of public contracts in the province of Diwaniyah sexual relations to the implementation of ten projects for electricity and communications in the province, at a cost of four billion dinars in the budget of the development of regions of the past year

Petrlionat Dinars?  Follow the math if you can
Discussed the budget year 2011 in the House of Representatives and many of the official forums and professional, and make observations before we view the budget totals Petrlionat dinars. Total expenditure on 93 of those units, income, disability scheme 79 14. Budget has allocated 29 of the investment, 1 for projects listed for the first time. Acquired operational spending to 64, and includes the amount of compensation to Kuwait, and could have been excluded from both sides of the revenues and expenditures as long as deducted automatically "from the account of the receipt of oil resources. And also include operational expenses amounts to produce and export oil and therefore does not exceed 58 At the exclusion of what is not them, and the total spending due to "So about 87.  

Word order, words and phrases with multiple meanings, locally understood things that cannot be parsed unless you were born there - one guy keeps coming out as "Watermelon." Poor Google Translator just doesn't get it.  But that's okay, we only need to understand one word: RV. 







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