Story Interpreters Gifts

'Okay, one more blog about the meaning of 'Alice in Wonderland' and then off to sleep.'

Dog Nightmares

Dialogue

She - Interpreter - He.

"Eat my dust!"

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

'It's the essence of springtime. You're really enjoying it.'

"I'm learning to live with existence."

Revival Meeting - Simultaneous translation of all talking in tongues.

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

"My guess it's guacamole."

Re-Tooling Costs - "Could you be a little more precise than umpteen million?"

Signing the declaration of independence.

Harriet Walter

"To hear the ocean in English, press one. Para Espanol ..."

'It says here you can talk trash in five languages.'

Mother Goose Spoilers

"...but this is the stuff of dreams Mr Whitley! Dreams."

'I need a text-mail interpreter.'

"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?"

"It said on the packet the pasta should act as a vehicle for the sauce."

Orator translates in many languages.

"Send for a Prftgxrgplwtkn interpreter - case adjourned for a thousand light years."

Pie chart of pub conversations

"I think our daughter should change her major. She can now ask for money in 3 different languages!"

"Marlowe filled the crooked gumshoe full of lead. He watched the smoke from his .38 coil in the air as he… mommy’s behind me, isn’t she?"

Fairy tales reimagined for the 21st century. Jack and the Beanstalk

Interpreter for the hard-to-believe-what-they're-hearing.

Company spokespersons statement being interpreted into plane English by a second spokesman.

"The true story"

"Oh yes, I proudly served."

"Last week, when I was telling you about my Lou Ferrigno dream, were you fighting off a yawn? Do you go to therapy? What would you do if I touched your ear? Yes or no—am I insane?"

"You'll have to phrase it another way. They have no word for 'fetch.' "

Body language interpreters - "He likes you and wishes to dance with you." "That's a get lost."

Simultaneous translation.