Texting Translator Gifts

"BOL means Barking Out Loud."

"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."

Polly txt speak

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."

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

"Couldn't you have just laughed instead of spelling 'LOL' in your alphabet soup?"

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

'Why can't we have a texting bee?'

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

"If Google Translate is correct, they want our women and our cattle."

"You know, there are other emojis."

"They communicate through clicks and taps."

'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.'

Oymoticons

Text Culture

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

"Textin’"

"What's going on Jen? Why didn't you respond to my kissing emoji?"

"So, hw ws yr smmr?"

'When I took this job, I had no idea how much it would cut into my quality, family texting time.'

Henry the amazing talking dog.

'Good night, Dear. Text me if you need anything.'

"It lost a little something in translation."

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

Moo Out Loud

Revival Meeting - Simultaneous translation of all talking in tongues.

'But this is fantastic, professor! It's like no language I've ever seen before!'

'The classic masks of Comedy and Tragedy, or as they're now known, emoticons.'