{"id":698,"date":"2021-06-13T20:56:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T20:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/CLD\/?p=698"},"modified":"2021-06-13T20:56:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T20:56:25","slug":"devil-deal-scuttled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/CLD\/devil-deal-scuttled\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil Deal Scuttled?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jim\u00a0 Jones | \u949f\u6770\u6728 \u8457<\/p>\n

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A word from the editors:<\/p>\n

There is more to translation than finding equivalents, and translators need to get beneath the surface to look for\u00a0the elusive \u201cintention\u201d of the source text. Jim Jones\u2019 story below illustrates this point nicely.\u00a0To make it fun, we put a couple of errors in the translation on purpose.\u00a0Hint: to detect one of the errors, you need to know the author\u2019s intention.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It is the year 2820, and a major shareholder in Devil\u00a0Incorporated, God Management, says that God\u00a0opposes a $10 billion deal for the U.S. giant to go\u00a0private. The investment group, which owns ten\u00a0percent of Devil, says that the potential deal\u00a0“undervalues Devil.\u201d John Smith of Financial News\u00a0reported Saturday that if the company did go private,\u00a0Jack Devil\u2019s $5 billion stake in his company could\u00a0eventually triple.<\/p>\n

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Said God\u2019s Director, in a phone conversation with John\u00a0Smith, \u201cThat guy Jack Devil just annoys me. Why does\u00a0he not just go and play elsewhere?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Devil’s board said this week that going private would\u00a0be the best way for the company to reinvent itself,\u00a0which they felt would be necessary in light of the alien\u00a0invasion last year. The ensuing war, which is now in\u00a0its tenth month, having played out on three battle-scarred continents, has taken away more than a\u00a0quarter of Earth\u2019s human population. So far the aliens\u00a0have only lost a handful of their thousands of\u00a0interstellar ships. They have lost no personnel yet. For\u00a0people on Earth, there has been a very certain anti-technology trend because everyone is afraid that\u00a0things could get worse. People are losing hope\u00a0because of the aliens\u2019 use of a giant magnetic\u00a0technology that takes away much of the world\u2019s\u00a0electrical power for great blocks of time. No one\u00a0knows the true capability of this technology yet.<\/p>\n

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People began to notice the phenomenon shortly after\u00a0the aliens lost their first ship off the coast of Australia\u00a0last year. At first, the news of the unexpected victory,\u00a0the result of a joint Australian and Chinese military op,\u00a0rallied everyone around the world. But within a few\u00a0hours, there were reports from many places of\u00a0electricity going out or becoming intermittent for a\u00a0few days at a time, as well as the temporary non-functioning of vehicles and smaller electrical devices.<\/p>\n

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The Grand Council, the collection of diplomatic\u00a0representatives of the Alien War Operations Board\u00a0from every individual nation-state, stated that the\u00a0Great Electrical Outage (now dubbed the 1A Great\u00a0Electrical Outage) that came shortly after Victory 1A,\u00a0that first downing, signified that the aliens themselves\u00a0were caught off-guard, and would seem to indicate\u00a0that the aliens were not necessarily all-powerful, just\u00a0very powerful.<\/p>\n

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Back to Devil: “This deal is so unfair to shareholders,”\u00a0says Dick Dogood, chief investment officer at\u00a0Knowledge Investment Management (KIM, a company\u00a0that is on the Korean peninsula), a major shareholder.\u00a0KIM estimates Devil Management’s value to be close\u00a0to $30 per share.<\/p>\n

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In a late-night phone conversation on Friday, the\u00a0second one of that day, the Head of God said, angrily,\u00a0\u201cThis alien issue is one thing, but the Devil thing is\u00a0quite another. I have a feeling that people are going to\u00a0beat the aliens, eventually, but if Jack Devil gets his\u00a0way, who knows? I mean, in this case, I cannot say for\u00a0sure what\u2019s gonna happen. People might give up\u00a0hope, ya know?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Janet Tease, of Devil, stands firm. \u201cIt is a good deal,\u00a0given the situation,\u201d she says, \u201cand consider this:\u00a0people are making inroads into the alien thing. Why\u00a0just last month they managed to take down another\u00a0of their giant ships. It is only a matter of time now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Devil’s shares closed up for the week.<\/p>\n

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Jim Jones first learned Mandarin in the US Midwest 30 years ago in college. He is a 20-year and award-winning member of STC (Society for Technical Communication stc.org). He does translation, editing, writing, cartooning, and other things. Find him at LinkedIn.com\/in\/jimxlat.<\/em><\/p>\n

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