Mistranslation and the perils of using daft jargon

[John Dunn]

There is a nice story about a mistranslation perpetrated by a Russian television station at:
 
http://www.newsru.com/russia/25jan2008/vanilla.html

Given that the term that was misunderstood is a particularly obscure piece of financial jargon, one has to feel a certain sympathy for the journalists concerned.

John Dunn.



John Dunn
Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies)
University of Glasgow, Scotland

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