fishducky, finally!: 02/07/17

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

WHERE WAS THE TRANSLATOR?

In case you didn't understand the question in the title, here it is translated into several different languages:

Où était le traducteur? (French)

¿Dónde estaba el traductor? (Spanish)

Dove era il traduttore? (Italian)

Wo war der Übersetzer? (German)

איפה היה המתרגם? (Hebrew)

Где был переводчиком? (Russian)

译者在那里？(Chinese)

جہاں مترجم تھا؟ (Urdu)

Πού ήταν το μεταφραστή; (Greek)

nuqDaq ghaH mughwI'? (Klingon)

Where the hell was that schmuck? (New Jerseyian)

(These next two paragraphs only are from an old post:

I bought two kitchen chairs from Overstock.com. They were the “retro” diner style, with bent aluminum legs & red vinyl seats. They came unassembled. The following is a review that I sent to Overstock: “The chairs arrived quickly and are very comfortable. Assembly was relatively easy if you followed the pictures. The written instructions were as follows (& this is a direct quote): Assembly way to request attention: all screws don’t first lock to tighten, until back cushion to lock tight after that, this chair all screws lock to tighten, then success.” For some strange reason, my husband had difficulty following the instructions, although I read them to him very slowly & enunciated carefully.

The other example of fine (?) Asian manual writing: A newscaster on TV was trying to report a story, but he was laughing so hard that it was difficult for him to do so. He finally was able to say, “This is from an instruction manual for a certain unnamed Japanese product. There is a word in it that needs to be corrected. We can’t tell you what the word that they actually used is, but we’re pretty sure they meant ‘screw’ part A into part B!”

When Nameless was going to college in Italy she got a job teaching English to Italian pilots. I told her that I could not over-emphasize the importance of their learning the difference between "up" & "down"!!

To see something that does the translating for you, click here.