TIME quoting Putin

[Paul Frank]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "You will be beaten _upside the head_ with a truncheon."
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> I wonder how that was expressed in the Russian original! ;-)
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> -Wilson

I don't speak Russian but this sounds like a bad translation for
"you'll beaten over the head with a truncheon." The German press is
reporting "you'll be beaten over the head with a truncheon" ("Sie
werden mit einem Knüppel auf den Kopf geschlagen werden"). And so is
the Spanish press ("recibirán en la cabeza un golpe con una porra").
And the Chinese-language press ("å¯èƒ½å°‡è¢«è­¦æ£æ‰“åˆ°é ­"). Newspapers publish all
sorts of bad translations.

Paul

Paul Frank
Translator
German, French, Italian > English
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