(video via ScrappleFace)
Lost in Translation: A U.S. Gift to Russia. Highlights of the story:
- US Secretary of State shows up with gag gift.
- Gag has symbollic meaning: we want the Russians to push the red button??
- Amateur translators use the wrong word on said gift
- Secretary of State mispronounces names, gets historical facts wrong
Somewhere, Condoleezza Rice (who’s fluent in Russian), is playing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto and feeling vindicated.
UPDATE
I would have them fear and hate our leaders rather than view them as buffoons and bunglers
You really can’t make this stuff up can you?
But, we warned America and she didn’t listen!