Mangled language stumps interpreters

Vidhi Doshi in Mumbai and Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Tuesday 6 June 2017 04.00 EDT

... “I tell my students that with simultaneous interpretation, the trick is to anticipate the speaker’s intentions and tell a story, to be slightly ahead of the game.

“But when the logic is not clear or a sentence is just left hanging in the air, then we have a problem. We try to grasp the context and get at the core message, but in Trump’s case, it’s so incoherent. You’re interpreting, and then suddenly the sentence stops making sense, and we risk ending up sounding stupid.

“There’s no way we can explain what he really means on air, so we just try to do our best. Japanese viewers are probably getting used to his idiosyncrasies by now” ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/06/trump-translation-interpreters