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a verbal acrobat translating in real time, where one wrong word can start a war
means A person who converts spoken words from one language into another, usually on the spot and out loud, so two parties who don't share a tongue can understand each other.
from From Latin 'interpres,' meaning a negotiator, agent, or go-between — someone standing in the middle of a deal. The second part may be related to 'pretium,' meaning price or value, fitting for a figure who brokered exchanges. It came through Old French 'interpreteur' into English in the late Middle Ages, keeping that original sense of the middleman who makes a bargain — or a conversation — possible.
- split second
- Simultaneous interpreters lag mere seconds behind live speech
- brain burnout
- They swap every 20-30 minutes to avoid mental collapse
- Nuremberg debut
- Live simultaneous interpreting was born at the trials
- diplomatic shield
- They sometimes soften insults to prevent international incidents
- code roots
- Computers run interpreters that translate code line by line
nuremberg trials — interpreters translated testimony for 24 nazi defendants in 1945-1946
united nations interpreters — real-time simultaneous translation in 6 official languages since 1945
apollo 11 interpreter — jan łanowski interpreted polish for moon landing broadcast in 1969