Reader Question: Help translate political idioms  A
fBabelfishriend of a friend is seeking good idiomatic Slovak
translations for several political terms–“Spin” “Passing the
Buck” and “Doublethink” and this seems to be an ideal task for
the readers of this blog.  Just leave your suggestions in the
comment space below. Thanks in advance!  2 thoughts on Reader
Question: Help translate political idioms    1. I believe the
words spin and doublethink are already widely understood
(depending on your definition of widely, of course). Any good
idiomatic Slovak translation of these terms would, I think,
still pretty much end up some sort of a newspeak.      Closest
to spin might be the word “prekrúcanie”, notable for its use by
politicians in almost every debate, usually in a response to a
query from the interviewer/moderator.      I reached for my
Slovak translation of 1984 to see how the translator dealt with
this and found he kept the word ‘doublethink’ in the text,
offering a translation only in a footnote: “dvojn