Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Translation Charades

Nadir has been translating articles for us so we can see what reporters are turning in as raw copy. We keep seeming to have conversations like this one Tuesday morning:

Nadir: "What do you call it in English when you are running out of blood?"
Me: "Uh, bleeding, maybe?"
Nadir: (with a look of disgust) No, no (pantomining a needle going into a vein.)
Me: Oh, anemia.
Nadir: Right!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Haha, this is great! This will definitely improve your taxinglish (English for taxis)skills

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