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."

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."

She - Interpreter - He.

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

Henry the amazing talking dog.

"It lost a little something in translation."

Revival Meeting - Simultaneous translation of all talking in tongues.

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

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

"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.'"

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

Dept. for Obfuscation - Out for periodic diurnal replenishment of nutritive substances.

East End Maps.

Life and Death

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.'

'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'.