Condoms in translation

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    Abstract

    It’s been impossible to escape this week’s media coverage of the pope’s comments about condoms and male prostitutes. There has been a lot of debate about what he really said in the German original and about the quality of the translations into English and Italian. I thought there might be some interesting language-on-the-move problem à la “What did Chancellor Merkel really say?” involved and went to investigate. However, it turns out that it’s obscure in whichever language you look at it.
    Original languageEnglish
    Specialist publicationLanguage on the move
    PublisherLanguage on the move
    Publication statusPublished - 28 Nov 2010

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    Keywords

    • 200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
    • 200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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