Tech Translator Mugs

The Woman Who Could Talk to Engineers...

"On a more positive note the guidance we’ve published on the services we can’t provide is published in 37 different languages."

"The leadership team wants a catchy acronym for a new social media app they're calling Functional Applied Relationship Tracker. Any suggestions?"

"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."

'I'm Jeremy's father. I'm a computer consultant and I'm unemployed.'

"You and your, 'why bother to learn another language. Everyone in the known universe speaks, Zarconian'!"

'You'll have to take an online company aptitude test, but if you're the designer we're looking for, you've already designed an app for that.'

"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.'

"O.K. I'm just feeding in your personal details for a suitable match..."

Super Strength, Impervious to Bullets And Explosions

She - Interpreter - He.

"I can't find my other boot. I need to be rebooted."

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

'I'm also fluent in Geek.'

Henry the amazing talking dog.

"It lost a little something in translation."

Second lifeReal life.

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

'Would everyone please phrase their questions in ones and zeros please.'

Revival Meeting - Simultaneous translation of all talking in tongues.

"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

"My mom's restricting my phone. She says I don't have enough Selfie Control."

"It's translated from French, so where it says 'Harvard Business School' it may mean 'jail.'"