interpreting

When he is dissected after his death," a disrespectful interpreter said of a foreign dignitary, "a million predicates will be found in his stomach: those he swallowed in the past decades without saying them.

I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.

Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.

Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.

As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.