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How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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> A police officer beats a woman whose three-year-old runs in all directions Is anyone able to give a better translation of this bit? Looks like the original sentence was "Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens"

A police officer told off a woman whose three year son was running around

Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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post #4

> A police officer beats a woman whose three-year-old runs in all directions Is anyone able to give a better translation of this bit? Looks like the original sentence was "Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens"

"A female police officer yells at a woman whose three-year-old boy runs about"

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post #4

> A police officer beats a woman whose three-year-old runs in all directions Is anyone able to give a better translation of this bit? Looks like the original sentence was "Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens"

A police officer harangued a woman while a boy of three years old ran all over the place. Harangued/Berated/Bitched at

Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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post #5

How is it the same people working for one president less than 60 days later act so different ? or are they ?

Probably it's been like that always at the US border, it's just now it's popular to showcase such stories as an example of "look what Trump did to our country". I heard of horror stories at the US border way before Trump took office.

Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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I think the appropriate outcome depends on whether they were going to be paid by the US institution.

If you're going to get paid, you need an appropriate visa.

Unfortunately some institutions don't understand this/don't want to understand this/tell you "it's fine, we do this all the time." But if you say the wrong thing at the border, you'll be denied entry and it'll get noted down for the next time you try and enter the country.

Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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post #5

How is it the same people working for one president less than 60 days later act so different ? or are they ?

Probably it's been like that always at the US border, it's just now it's popular to showcase such stories as an example of "look what Trump did to our country". I heard of horror stories at the US border way before Trump took office.

It is not so, such behaviour would have gotten reported as well under Obama, many countries are just waiting for the US to slip up as it is doing now, to justify their own less-than-stellar human-rights records: "see, it's just as bad in the US". Sadly ESC:bdw Luckily! the US is still better, For how long?

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I'm not even half through this article but I felt an urge to say this: The automatic french-english translation is so good, I didn't even notice it at all. Good work, google! Edit: now that I'm aware that the text I'm reading is a translation, I see the errors. I guess my brain just filtered it out. Still awesome though!

Well, to be fair, the language used is rather simplistic. The vocabulary itself is of a higher level, but the grammar is really basic from the start to the end. Most of the article is also pure description and not a thesis or something. I guess all that helps a lot the automated translation tool.

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post #4

> A police officer beats a woman whose three-year-old runs in all directions Is anyone able to give a better translation of this bit? Looks like the original sentence was "Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens"

The original phrase is " Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens". in the context;I think a correct transalation is " the police-woman shouted at a lady because her three-year-old child was runing in all directions.

Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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post #2

I'm not even half through this article but I felt an urge to say this: The automatic french-english translation is so good, I didn't even notice it at all. Good work, google! Edit: now that I'm aware that the text I'm reading is a translation, I see the errors. I guess my brain just filtered it out. Still awesome though!

Beware the translation in some places. Google translates: "Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens" into "A police officer beats a woman whose three-year-old runs in all directions". The actual translation is: "A female police officer shouts at a woman whose 3-year-old is running all over the place"
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