Translation Tribulations Enthusiast Gifts

Somewhere in France - "Here is your yellow canary", has not, so far, been the most useful of phrases.

"It's amazing, Darlin', just how fast the kids grow up!"

"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!"

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."

A man deflates and dissolves into the ground and becomes a flower.

She - Interpreter - He.

"It lost a little something in translation."

Henry the amazing talking dog.

The Family Joules: Part 6

Revival Meeting - Simultaneous translation of all talking in tongues.

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

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.

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

"I wasn't expecting to be in here for so long."

"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.

'It was restored just last year, and changed from an abstract painting to a landscape.'

East End Maps.

Life and Death

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

Good coaches help people change, great coaches help the change stick...

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

'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?"

'I need a text-mail interpreter.'

Dictionary Sale - Now in High Definition.