Video: Chinatown Residents Fight Off Eviction
Seventeen Chinese American families who won a pitched battle in June with their landlord, San Francisco City College, to remain in their apartment building...
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eh_what said:
July 9, 2009 7:50 PM
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I am sad that the translation isn't really right. If it were, I think it would be even more interesting.
Cassidy Friedman replied to comment from eh_what
July 16, 2009 5:23 PM
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Although I'm confident that the spirit of what was said was accurately captured by the interpreter, perhaps I should have mentioned somewhere in the video that the subtitles might not match up perfectly witht the Cantonese spoken by the couple.
There are two reasons it might not have matched up:
1- Because the interepreter waited each time to translate until the couple was finished making their points -- sometimes waiting up to one minute before she interrupted.
2- Because while I was editing this video I didn't know exactly where to match up what the couple had said with its translation.
For future viewers, especially speakers of Cantonese, please consider that the translation may not match up perfectly with the original statements.