Why translation is an art, not a science - hitting (on) women edition

[strannik01]

So, back on Tuesday, I was scrolling through my Twitter feed when I saw this tweet from Gazeta.ru online newspaper (and Livejournal's corporate sibling)

Катрин Денев: мужчины должны быть свободны в вопросе битья женщинhttps://t.co/dmaqQ4Jy74 pic.twitter.com/vAWw0V029u
- События дня (@GazetaRu) January 9, 2018

For those of you who can't read Russian

Comments

[hettie_lz]

it's not even funny....

[strannik01]

Not funny at all.

[tilia_tomentosa]

My oh my... that's worse than Google Translate.

[strannik01]

At least Google Translate has an excuse. It's a program, it doesn't understand context. Gazeta.ru journalists can. In theory.

[tilia_tomentosa]

Well, it looks like somebody who's never been exposed to colloquial English. At best.

I'm a translator myself, talk to me about understanding of context...