Whose Ukraine Is It Anyway?

Rough Translation

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🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Please, take our survey! At a Ukrainian comedy competition founded by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, can humor unite a divided country?

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0:00.0	We have some of our friends around NPR to help us translate a simple phrase.
0:04.2	Okay, so you need to say please show your love to Rough Translation by donating to public radio.
0:11.2	Oh no, I'm gonna get this completely grammatically incorrect.
0:14.7	In Marathi?
0:16.0	Yeah.
0:17.0	Oh my god, this is such a... I have no... what, let me think.
0:20.1	How do you say show your love in Hebrew?
0:22.4	Love as a noun. Um, you don't do that in Mandarin.
0:26.1	Uh...
0:27.5	Uff... yeah, Uffanition.
0:30.4	This is a very Israeli expression, show your love.
0:32.7	It's like, kind of some slack.
0:34.5	You can't really say Rough Translation in French.
0:37.6	It would translate as scratchy translation or something, so...
0:41.2	Half translation? No.
0:42.6	Terumelo, terumelo.
0:44.0	A translation that's not a translation.
0:46.4	It's hard enough just to translate a sentence.
0:49.4	On this show, we try to translate people's experiences and perspectives
0:53.7	to help you understand our world.
0:56.0	And we couldn't do that work without public radio.
0:58.8	I don't know how to say public radio.
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