| We all know that world leaders need to | | | | Many of us wonder how interpreters work under |
| communicate. Without communication, a considerable | | | | such pressure and exactly how much paraphrasing, if |
| amount more attacks and wars would happen and | | | | any, is done. The truth is that people are not perfect |
| the world would be in a mess. Presidents and | | | | and sometimes, mistakes can be made even by |
| politicians from various countries hold international | | | | language interpreters. World famous interpreters, |
| talks regularly and these talks can only happen with | | | | individuals who have worked with world leaders, say |
| the help of a language interpreter. Being a language | | | | that sometimes they would have to censor the |
| interpreter is a high pressure job that can come with | | | | translation in order to calm the already tense |
| a large amount of stress, and this amount of | | | | environment. Even though this is done without |
| pressure is exemplified when working with world | | | | changing the meaning of the sentence, changing the |
| leaders. As we have all seen by watching parliament | | | | tone can change the desired effect. One of the most |
| and conferences, these talks can get heated and an | | | | famous changes of language interpretation tone was |
| interpreter has to keep their cool in order to translate | | | | in the 1980's when Margaret Thatcher met with the |
| the language to the best of their ability. | | | | then president of former Congo. The first thing that |
| Verbal interpretation can be just as important as legal | | | | Thatcher said when she met the president was "I |
| translations, one wrong word could get you into a | | | | hate Communists." The French language interpreter |
| large amount of trouble and have you left with | | | | translated this comment to a gentler "Prime Minister |
| nothing in a legal settlement or accidently have you | | | | Thatcher says that she has never been wholly |
| give away your home in a divorce agreement. | | | | supportive of the ideas of Karl Marx". |
| Language interpretation for world leaders is highly | | | | Being a language interpreter is a tricky profession and |
| word specific, as one wrong word could change a lot | | | | one has to be able to not only translate terms |
| more than a divorce settlement. Translation from one | | | | directly, but interpret the tone and point that that |
| foreign language to another at an international | | | | person is trying to make and translate it as |
| meeting has to be done quickly, accurately and of | | | | accurately as possible. |
| course, correctly, so interpreters have to work fast. | | | | |