10 Things You Should Never Say to a Translator! (Mega Cool List)
Below a list of taboo questions you should never ask a translator.
MYTH: Translators/interpreters are walking dictionaries.
REALITY: Yes, they might speak more than one language but they do not know all the words in a given language. It is impossible to know every single term, even in your mother tongue.
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How about: Translators don't know language, just see any movie with subtitles, it's like festival of facepalms.Or god forbid try to read a book. If it's not in original language don't bother. I never used to understand single word of Shakespeare until I learned sufficient English to read it, and trust me, looking up olden words was a breeze compared to trying to figure out what should be proper word order in translation.
I said that to a colleague who is translator, and all she said was: "No, you don't know how hard they study". Man, what would they do if they had to study engineering?
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