President Carter's Translator :)

President Carter's Translator :)

it is important for any administration to have a great leader. a leader that can make moving speeches. it also helps if that aforementioned leader hires a capable translator for when he travels abroad. President carter in 1977 went to Poland for some political talks regarding the whole state of the cold war and some other stuff. he did not have a translator so the state department hired a freelancer called Seymour. he was supposed to be fluent in polish. his expertise was to translate WRITTEN polish into English. apparently he wasn't capable of doing the same thing with the spoken language. During Carter's opening speech, Seymour translated the the English sentence said by Carter, "I have come to learn your opinions and understand your desires for the future." into the Polish, "I desire the Poles carnally." wow, that must have made the polish super confused. it didn't stop their, the translator kept on making mistakes, saying that the president would like to touch or grasp the polish people's private parts. he also stated that Carter left the united states and never to return and ended the speech saying the president thinks their constitution is ridiculous. I can't begin to imagine how the people attending this speech must have felt. he likes us waay too much apparently and now he wants to stay but thinks our constitution is ridiculous. the state department fired the translator and hired another one who was fluent in polish but horrible in English. this one feared to repeat Seymour mistakes so he kept his mouth shut during the president's toast. finally a translator from the polish government stepped in and cleared the misunderstandings.