I don't normally just post little news articles, but this is just too funny....
Translator Couldn't Take Gaddafi Speech
Updated: Sunday, 27 Sep 2009, 2:56 PM EDTPublished : Sunday, 27 Sep 2009, 2:55 PM EDT
By MIKE BRODY
(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Muammar Gaddafi's personal translator broke down towards the end of the Libyan leader's meandering 94-minute UN speech last week and had to be relieved by a UN Arabic speaker, according to the New York Post .
The Libyan interpreter reportedly collapsed from exhaustion after translating about 75 minutes of Gaddafi's speech, which lasted six times longer than the UN's 15-minute time limit.
"I just can’t take it any more," Khadafy's interpreter shouted into the live microphone in Arabic.
UN rules specify that translators only provide live interpretation for 40 minutes at a time, but Libya insisted on using its own translators for English and French rather than one of the 25 Arabic translators provided by the UN. Libyan diplomats said that Gaddafi would be speaking a dialect that only his staff could understand.
The longest-ever UN speech was delivered by V. K. Krishna Menon, who spent nearly eight hours defending India’s position on Kashmir to the Security Council in January 1957.
Translator Couldn't Take Gaddafi Speech
Updated: Sunday, 27 Sep 2009, 2:56 PM EDTPublished : Sunday, 27 Sep 2009, 2:55 PM EDT
By MIKE BRODY
(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Muammar Gaddafi's personal translator broke down towards the end of the Libyan leader's meandering 94-minute UN speech last week and had to be relieved by a UN Arabic speaker, according to the New York Post .
The Libyan interpreter reportedly collapsed from exhaustion after translating about 75 minutes of Gaddafi's speech, which lasted six times longer than the UN's 15-minute time limit.
"I just can’t take it any more," Khadafy's interpreter shouted into the live microphone in Arabic.
UN rules specify that translators only provide live interpretation for 40 minutes at a time, but Libya insisted on using its own translators for English and French rather than one of the 25 Arabic translators provided by the UN. Libyan diplomats said that Gaddafi would be speaking a dialect that only his staff could understand.
The longest-ever UN speech was delivered by V. K. Krishna Menon, who spent nearly eight hours defending India’s position on Kashmir to the Security Council in January 1957.
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