Language Translator Prints

Even more of what people say (and what they really mean)

"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."

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!"

Campaign for Plain English

"You haven't got dyslexia- the instructions are in polish."

"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."

'Today the stock market was moribund, as growth equities sputtered and bonds dipped due to the inverted yield curve. I'd translate that into layman's terms...but they don't pay me enough.'

She - Interpreter - He.

Henry the amazing talking dog.

"It lost a little something in translation."

Alphabet soup gets cold for slow readers.

Revival Meeting - Simultaneous translation of all talking in tongues.

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

"My nephew Jack here can say ‘I’m unemployed’ in seven languages."

"No, wait a minute. I'm King. You're Rex."

Jorge Luis Borges

"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.

Just our luck...old school crime translation classes!

'This is delicious. I'm glad I didn't try to order in Italian.'

'Should-do and shouldn't-do sound a lot alike.'

'You've previously worked as a hieroglyph translator and an MI5 codebreaker - ideal!'

'I need a text-mail interpreter.'

Proof Reading

Dictionary Sale - Now in High Definition.

By the year 2500, 1 in 10 academics will devote their entire career to divining the meaning of the word 'sussudio'.