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Many Christians place enormous emphasis on the text of the Bible as the ultimate source of information and compliment their high view of Scripture with an equally high view of an interpreter's ability to objectively read the text and arrive at the same answers.
Ben Griffith: What The Tea Party And Evangelicals Both Get Wrong Ben Griffith 2011
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The job of an interpreter, however, requires a whole other level of attention to detail - an intricate dissection of every single word, with the knowledge that the interpreter's understandings of the song are going to inform or define other people's understandings of the song.
What sign-language interpreters make of the likes of Lady Gaga and Bon Jovi 2011
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Many Christians place enormous emphasis on the text of the Bible as the ultimate source of information and compliment their high view of Scripture with an equally high view of an interpreter's ability to objectively read the text and arrive at the same answers.
Ben Griffith: What The Tea Party And Evangelicals Both Get Wrong Ben Griffith 2011
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The author calls these people "the lucky ones," and her new book traces the story of three generations of a Chinese interpreter's family -- hard workers who attained a place in the upper middle class very early during this wave of immigration.
Mae Ngai's "The Lucky Ones: The Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America" 2010
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The author calls these people "the lucky ones," and her new book traces the story of three generations of a Chinese interpreter's family -- hard workers who attained a place in the upper middle class very early during this wave of immigration.
Mae Ngai's "The Lucky Ones: The Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America" 2010
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As to whether there have been miscarriages of justice, just ask any lawyer who has pleaded in French and then seen the interpreter's version, and they will tell you that the arguments that the judges heard were not the same as the ones they made.
Bilingual judges: someone is sure missing the point - Andrew Coyne - Macleans.ca 2010
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I would agree with Corinne, but alas the whole spectacle is about looking good (this is showbiz), so professionally I might fault them, but I would imagine the interpreter's client (the producers) would not.
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The figures for interpreter's rates seem rather on the low side, however.
Translation Industry Featured in Wall Street Journal Online Judy 2009
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It's not the interpreter's job to change what is being said.
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Interpretation, in turn, can only be from a perspective embedded in the historical matrix of the interpreter's own traditions, the fabric of preconceptions that Gadamer called "prejudice."
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