I love this.
I won’t lie I’m shedding a few tears right now
Sometimes the interpreter’s job is to actually interpret what is being said. Not word-for-word (though that can be quite important), but context-for-context.
[ID: pictures of text from a book, some of which has been highlighted in pink. The highlighted parts read: “I was the first to introduce myself. […] Joy. I’m from Portland and I’m traveling with eight other African American women. […] despite the brevity of my comments, the translator seemed to be going on at length. ‘Is this going to happen after every introduction?’
“I know that I didn’t say very much, so what exactly did you say to them?”
“I said that you were African American women, I needed to explain what that meant. You see, many of the people in the audience are […] the ones who had been stolen away. They were chanting at you, ‘Welcome home.’
“We mourned Martin and Malcolm with you, we are so proud of you, we just wondered when you were coming home.” END ID]
