I’m an ancient craft.
No, not the oldest, only the second oldest.
Which mankind is
trying to satisfy her second most urgent need.
What is this need?
I helped you with a picture.
Hieronymus Bosch formulates it,
what happens when there is a problem with this need.
This is the Babel confusion.
What causes it?
Communication, or rather lack of knowledge of the common language.
Here I come into the picture,
as a translation interpreter.
Obviously,
that this Babylonian confusion should not be present in anyone’s life.
Anyway, that’s exactly why I’m familiar,
if my face is not, yes, my voice.
For years I have been TEDxDanubia
one of Hungarian and English sounds.
In my voice you can hear the messages,
if you do not understand the original artist.
That was how it was during the morning.
I was sitting in a small cabin behind the stage with one of my colleagues.
Even now the others are sitting there,
and they work for those who do not understand me in Hungarian,
understand English.
Anyway, this current situation is quite interesting to me,
because I’ve had lots of TEDxDanubia lectures,
but I’ve never been to the TEDx stage.
(Laughter)
Another interesting thing is that I’m talking about interpretation now,
but they also interpret me in the back.
I have to try to speak with interpretation.
I trust you will succeed,
and it will not happen,
which Shakespeare put it this way:
“Fate, will, so counter-revolutionary, that our plans often go into smoke.
We have the intentions, we do not want to do that. “
Very welcome, girls, this quote.
(Laughter)
But why am I here today?
Because I have enough of it,
that interpretation, and who-what the interpreter,
they are interpreted very extreme.
There are those who say that the interpreter is a genius – obviously I’m glad –
he is a sure ufo because he can do two things at one time:
talking and listening.
There are some who think we are robust robots,
and behave accordingly.
But this is not the biggest problem.
But it is that many people confront me with the fact that,
that: Ah, interpreter or translator, this is not a true profession!
Anyone who can speak a little in a foreign language can do it.
What is it all about?
I pass one word to the other language,
I also translate the sentences into the other language and that’s it!
Really? Is this about interpretation? Is this the translation?
I rely on the end of my performance
you will understand little about interpretation and translation.
In order to highlight that,
what is our job,
now do a practice.
I ask you,
to imagine that it is a 1×1 m floor area
you sit in a small cabin with second-tier ones.
Headphones with headphones, microphone in front of you.
The headset is constantly coming to the lecturer’s text,
and you have to talk to them simultaneously
obviously in another language.
Then it’s time to practice.
Obviously there are not so many interpreters’ cabs here,
to give each one,
so I’d like to use the method of ssotation if you apply it.
That means whispering in the ear next to us
and so we interpret it.
It’s very exciting when it’s working!
Anyone who likes it, I’m going to ask for it now,
that I will tell you a short text,
and should only be translated from Hungarian to Hungarian.
The task is to listen, not so simple!
You should not use the same block structure,
which I, and not the same words.
But the message should be the same as mine,
and do it with me at the same time, okay?
(Laughter)
Stylish about last year’s TEDxDanubi
I brought you a short quotation, okay?
Then everyone is ready, let’s look at the text!
“But what exactly is the circus?
For me the recognition on the Croatian coast,
when I was in the sun when I was a crocodile uncle
climbed out of the water with an eagle in his hand,
to which an enormous octopus coiled.
He took it, and as Toldi held the guest side, he held it in the air with one hand.
So? How did it go?
(Applause) (Laughter)
Then imagine that this is not Hungarian from Hungarian to Hungarian,
but I had to interpret English to an audience,
who does not know who Toldi is and what the guest is.
As a proxy, the lucky situation arises,
so that we can hide in the skin of many people.
This is good because I wanted to be an actress.
He did not come together, but I’ve been a lot of people.
I was a large number of ambassadors, I was an old uncle,
whose granddaughter was born that night,
I was Prime Minister of Hungary, Deputy Secretary-General of NATO,
and Franco Nero once.
But the most exciting thing was,
when I was in the skin of a Buddhist Chinese monk,
who blessed the audience in singing in English.
That was the real challenge.
But that can still be accomplished.
What’s really difficult is how to convey the message.
There are a number of speakers, everyone else is talking about, and they are experts.
However, interpreters generally – khm! – liberal arts,
and what does the liberal arts do? I do not think we should go into this.
(Laughter)
To see how my work really is,
I brought you one of my weeks.
Here you can see how he looked.
I started the morning in the morning.
With the Swedish Ambassador, we went to a base stone meal.
In the afternoon I went to another place where a lubricating oil company was happening.
Wednesday came:
the automotive parts manufacturer’s conference.
On Thursday, Thai business meeting, Thai in English,
so it can be exciting …
Then came Friday, building co-operation,
was about construction, electrical work, building engineers,
and Saturday-Sunday is a loose little outlet MLM,
cranberry products,
and they even talked about seed potato breeding
and dog sled tournaments.
Mmm, yeah, that was pretty exciting.
But can this be further enhanced?
Yes it can be. Eg with a TEDxDanubia event.
When twice as many subjects are dropped into one day.
We still have our two human faculty in the cabin.
Let’s see, for example, last year we were our performers.
Former architect, ultramarine pianist, jazz pianist,
creative technology technologist, material scientist, ex-terrorist, geologist,
and let’s say we can close the line with anti-material physics.
That was really a big challenge.
Obviously there are many topics, difficult, not everything for us perfectly,
errors occur.
That is how it happened almost when the French rapporteur
he always referred to a psychedelic stench .
I realized that this was nothing else,
like a geothermal heat pump. (Laughter)
Or, for example … (Laughter) (Applause)
there was the case to the sky,
the end of which from the interpreter’s mouth sounded as follows:
Mother, get the eggs.
The mother brought the eggs,
Jancsi cut off the pasta with him.
You obviously have the eggs here. ax,
it was an English composition,
a little bit misled by the interpreter.
I said that TEDx is one of the toughest nuts.
That is why I can further enhance this.
We can raise bets.
My favorite theme I’ve been researching for years.
This is nothing but the operative revolution.
“A girl from a fire, a bunny, quick, fresh,
but it would be a knife if she were a woman. “
Is this verse familiar to everyone?
(Applause)
Have you ever considered it,
what kind of hard wood the ax is cutting,
who gives his head an operagement?
For there is to be a text that exists in existing music,
in which rhymes and poetic instruments remain,
and the syllable number is exactly the same as the source language and the target language.
This can still be achieved,
although if the syllable is different, it will not sound the same again.
We can hear in Turandot that:
“No dummies! No dummies!”
We add a small syllable in Hungarian:
“No one can sleep, no one can sleep!”
It sounds a lot better, is not it?
What do you need to pay attention to the translator?
For example, it’s good to let the singer get in the air.
There may not be bad here if there is not too much “h” sound.
But sometimes the translators are injected.
If, for example, you have to sing that:
“Áromszáz H-H-H-arminc Aroma”
he has been rid of all his air in one word.
Or you have to select the private and consonants properly,
because it does not matter what sound the singer has.
Let’s go back to Turandot again.
He sings the Italian in the end to:
“At dawn I will win, I will win, I will win.”
Very nice! What do you sing in Hungarian?
“My victory is mine! Victory! Victory!”
It’s full of “e”!
Or keep the letter of this unlucky singer,
and he will sound lame,
or not, it’s easy to sing but “I win!” will not be “Victory!”
You have to pay attention to this, or you should pay attention to the translator.
We can say that this can still be done,
if you pay attention to the translator.
But what is happening with the operation,
when the opera and lyrics are completely symbiotic?
Eg The Bluebird Prince’s Castle is such an opera.
There eg. for some meaningful words
some tone is associated.
So, for example, there is a voice given to the names of the actors.
There is Bluebeard who embodies the old world.
The pentatonics. His fingers are his.
Judith, who sings singingly, who brings the reforms,
who brings the new music world:
he is in C major.
It is so closely related to the name of the actors,
that when Judith is singing,
“I Go, I’m Going, Bluebeard”
there, “Bluebeard”, these four syllables jump into fissi.
This is very important, but the translator must be aware of it.
So you have to kill the impossible thing,
to keep the four spokespersons of the Bluebeard in four syllables in the other languages,
in English, Blue Beard has two syllables,
– question how to do it –
and the four syllables of the Bluebeard
the same should be included in English, possibly in other languages,
because if they do not, they will lose the extra thing to say,
the second layer that the opera contains.
This is translation and interpretation.
I do not know what you think about it now.
I’m confident you’ve changed your opinions,
if you did not understand me at first.
By the end, in style I would like to have something else,
like “May the 4th be with you!”
Because the sun came. Thank you very much!
(Applause)
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