Wednesday, October 22, 2003
No Pleasing Some People
The City of San Jose, California, wished to reassure the local Vietnamese community upset by a police shooting. So they conducted an entire briefing in Vietnamese for the 24 people who bothered to show up. Their reward for going the extra mile?
The translation didn't work for everybody. Christine Ho, 61, of San Jose said the translation didn't seem thorough enough. She said she would probably return but instead sit in the hearing room next door, where she expects she would understand about 70 percent of the English.
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