Online translations help defend bullied Olympic Competitors at Rio

Oh yes, languages are made more interesting by translations especially in a place like Rio where almost all nationalities have gathered this 2016 in the name of summer games. According to the Daily Mail, there are over 146 nations with representatives in the Olympics at Rio in 2016 than there was in the London Olympics.

There was a scenario where  Alexa Moreno, 22, very enthusiastic Mexican gymnast was body shamed and bullied on social media by what are commonly referred to as internet trolls for being fat. Though the original hate messages where in vernacular dialects, the entire world almost got to know and condemned the troll’s shameful act all over plat forms of social media.

This happened because of translations and interpretations that were made by either professional personnel or random internet users who happen to be some type of linguists. It should be noted that the original message was written on Twitter, in the Spanish language but was translated by several individuals and media outlets to languages understood by their audiences. This shows the enormous importance of translation and interpretation for effective communication purposes like in the example above.

In fact we can go ahead and assume that professional translation services help justice to prevail, in this case it happens when concerned people get to know of injustices or abuse directed upon hard working Olympians. They get to defend by giving out their views on the different social media plat forms in their various languages.

Well as the above example was of a Mexican gymnast, there is another story of an Ethiopian swimmer who too faced similar harsh treatment over social media for being too fat and for looking like nothing athletic.

Some of the translations of defenses given

Most of the internet and social media plat form users had their defenses translated from and into various languages for audiences world over and they included the following;

Robel Kiros Habte who represented Ethiopia in the swimming competitions happened to have gained all his weight as he allegedly recovered from a auto accident. This therefore required encouragement and a thumbs up for even competing for his country at the Olympics. http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-oly-rio-2016-robel-kiros-1470857513-htmlstory.html

Alexa’s trolls where accused of praising Mexican drug Lords instead of greater causes like that of their gymnast who represented them at the Rio summer games.

Gabby Douglas social media trolls on the other hand preferred to criticize her natural hair and failing to put her right hand over heart s the U.S.A national anthem was playing.

Therefore professional translations and interpretations on social media too are very important and doing a great job at uniting against injustice, especially to those doing their best to excel positively.

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