{"id":812,"date":"2008-09-08T21:57:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T20:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2008\/09\/08\/812\/"},"modified":"2008-09-08T21:57:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T20:57:26","slug":"bad-translation-prolonging-the-russo-georgian-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/bad-translation-prolonging-the-russo-georgian-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad translation prolonging the Russo-Georgian war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/notanyron\/368658084\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/149\/368658084_2b7d99c886_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/notanyron\/368658084\/\">You Are Entering The American Sector<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/notanyron\/\">notanyron<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/russia\/2700177\/Bad-French-prolongs-Russia-Georgia-conflict.html\">interesting article<\/a> today in The Telegraph about how bad translations from the French original has prolonged the war in Georgia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One reason for the continuation of the conflict now appears to be a passage in the Russian translation of the agreement that speaks of security &#8220;for&#8221; South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The English version speaks of security &#8220;in&#8221; the two areas.<\/p>\n<p>The difference is crucial, because Russia continues to keep its tanks and armed troops &#8220;in&#8221; Georgian territory. The international community, in turn, wants security &#8220;for&#8221; South Ossetia and Abkhazia without the Russian army staying in Georgia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Are Entering The American Sector Originally uploaded by notanyron There&#8217;s an interesting article today in The Telegraph about how bad translations from the French original has prolonged the war in Georgia: One reason for the continuation of the conflict now appears to be a passage in the Russian translation of the agreement that speaks of security &#8220;for&#8221; South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The English version speaks of security &#8220;in&#8221; the two areas. The difference is crucial, because Russia continues to keep its tanks and armed troops &#8220;in&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}