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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsshanny
(6,709 posts)Supposedly saying US would fall to communism and latertalking about burying us ECONOMICALLY. Neither happened.
sinkingfeeling
(51,281 posts)You must have more than a single source to dispute his statement.
shraby
(21,946 posts)Also his pounding the podium with a shoe and saying basically the same thing. We will bury you.
Igel
(35,199 posts)And it works.
My brother buried his wife. He didn't kill her, of course, but he buried her.
The implication, though, is that he survived her. Otherwise he'd be the one being buried, or they'd be buried at about the same time.
It's the implication that the Russian phrase usually means.
Take the English, "he survived her." That has two meanings, right? The first is that he lived longer than her. The second is that she was such a horrible thing that it was an accomplishment to outlast her. He'd take great issue with the second interpretation, but it's a possible one. However, when speaking of somebody's death, to say that somebody "survived" the deceased simply means "is still alive."
The interpreter was technically right, but was a bit too literal--interpreters at highly charged international or business conferences tend to err on the side of literalness at the expense of likely meaning--if you get it wrong while trying to express the meaning, people'll ask for your decapitation, but if you err on the side of being technically correct, well, that's defensible ( ). I'd go with something like "we'll see you buried", which avoids admission of culpability while expressing some anticipation and even joy at the prospect of interment while being defensible, but simultaneous interpretation is one of the most cognitively demanding things I've ever engaged in. ("We'll see you dead and buried" sounds better to my ears, but it's riskier.)
shanny
(6,709 posts)I also recall an economic context of capitalism (colonialism) v communism.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)What you posted says this quote is from 1956.