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Translation Troubles: Miscommunication in Politics and Media
This chapter explores the pitfalls of translation through a miscommunication involving a Canadian politician at the White House. It examines the broader challenges of machine translation, including dialect and accent limitations, using examples from British comedy and rural Australian speech.
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