
"Sometimes you just option it because your gut tells you this is a book that has to be butchered."
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"Sometimes you just option it because your gut tells you this is a book that has to be butchered."
"On a more positive note the guidance we’ve published on the services we can’t provide is published in 37 different languages."
"And the last little piggy cried, 'Oui, oui, oui' all the way home."
Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?
Solicitor speaks legal jargon and has a translator who tells client: 'You haven't a hope!'
"'I don't want war'. . . well, wither our translation program is broke or this president has a strange kind of humor!"
"You haven't got dyslexia- the instructions are in polish."
Producer, Director and Novelizer.
Barks in code.
"You and your, 'why bother to learn another language. Everyone in the known universe speaks, Zarconian'!"
"If Google Translate is correct, they want our women and our cattle."
Even more of what people say (and what they really mean)
"Bark bark bark bark bark" "Fwd: bark bark bark bark bark" "Fwd: fwd: bark bark bark bark bark" "Fwd: fwd: fwd: bark bark bark bark"
Henry the amazing talking dog.
"It lost a little something in translation."
Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs
The Family Joules: Part 6
We're going on a first date. So many words are misused every day. Literally! I don't accept the use of imperfect language. Me either. Trying to fight it has no effect. It's all a mute point. Irregardless, I could care less. I had nothing farther to say.
Jorge Luis Borges
"No, wait a minute. I'm King. You're Rex."
"My nephew Jack here can say ‘I’m unemployed’ in seven languages."
"It's translated from French, so where it says 'Harvard Business School' it may mean 'jail.'"
Dept. for Obfuscation - Out for periodic diurnal replenishment of nutritive substances.
East End Maps.
"To hear the ocean in English, press one. Para Espanol ..."
'This is delicious. I'm glad I didn't try to order in Italian.'
'I need a text-mail interpreter.'
'You've previously worked as a hieroglyph translator and an MI5 codebreaker - ideal!'
"Baldo, Gracie...you need to learn more Spanish. For the rest of the week, I'm going to speak nothing but Spanish, and Tia Carmen will act as your interpreter, OK? Tienen tarea?"
Proof Reading
'It says here you can talk trash in five languages.'
By the year 2500, 1 in 10 academics will devote their entire career to divining the meaning of the word 'sussudio'.
'Father, when are you going to get software for our home computer that will teach me French?'
We speak hieroglyphics here.
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