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| 2018-08-20 |
| [IMAO] Regarding Twitter’s recent banning of InfoWars’ Alex Jones, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said, "we’re always trying to cultivate more of a learning mindset and help guide people back towards healthier behaviors and healthier public conversation." I know that sounds pretty clunky the way he said it, but I assure you it’s nearly poetic in the original German. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 Here’s how I would try, g(r)omgoru, but understand that back when we lived in that part of the world my German interlocutors (Gespraechpartneren) often found my efforts suggestive of a local with serious brain damage. So: Wir versuchen immer ein Lerngedank kultivieren um verbessertete Gesundsleben und Gemeinschaftphilosophie zu machen. But wordhippo.com came up with the following, which feels much more correct: "Wir versuchen immer mehr, eine Lernmentalität zu entwickeln und Menschen dabei zu helfen, gesünderes Verhalten und gesündere öffentliche Gespräche zu führen." Why do you ask, my dear? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-08-20 18:33 |
| #2 TW, can you translate "we’re always trying to cultivate more of a learning mindset and help guide people back towards healthier behaviors and healthier public conversation." into Deutsch? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-08-20 15:49 |
| #1 I thought, as an American, that saying Gleichschaltung sounded like clearing the throat of a particularly thick coating of phlegm... Not a policy that a 'public carrier', a supposedly neutral conduit of communication should be indulging in. During the Spanish Civil War the Spanish affiliate of AT&T ran the telephones in a remarkably neutral fashion, as an example of being apolitical. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-08-20 15:12 |