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We've had like to work on some translations where

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debates did arise

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and we kind of didn't know

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what the right answer would be at first,

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Uh, when I started. And it was simple things like

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survivors using the word football or soccer

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and our French translators in France would get really

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passionate about it

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and be like, no, there is no such thing as soccer.

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It's foot or football.

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And you tell a student, a friend,

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Francophone student in New Brunswick that he played football,

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he'll be like, yeah, the, the American football.

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And be like, no, no football. And it's no good.

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They just don't get it. So that's like a simple question,

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but then again, it speaks to like,

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will students understand this?

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And sometimes it's a bit more somber too,

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like if we're dealing with, um, let's say Judy Cohen

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who was in Auschwitz

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and we're kind of like trying to figure out

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what is the French word for the barracks?

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What is the French word for the, the hospital?

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You can't open your dictionary

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and be like, oh yeah, hôpital, it doesn't work that way.

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You have to kind of go back and look in French testimonies

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and be like, what did the French survivor use?

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And so now we know that hospital is, was, infirmirie.

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You really have to be curious, vigilant.

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You just like can't take a word for granted.

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You just have to check everything.

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And it gets, it gets tiring.

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At one point you're like, okay,

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we're never gonna finish this translation

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because it's so detailed, it's

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so rich, we wanna get it right.

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And we have this whole guide where we write everything down

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so that we don't forget all these hours spent, uh,

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researching certain terms in

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what they mean in a Holocaust context versus

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what they mean in the general context.