Sometimes it feels as if we were drowning in words.
The interpreter is, in a way, helpless in the face of an avalanche: sounds, acronyms, home-made abbreviations, words sometimes strung together at random, long-winding sentences, insider jokes or allusions, dialects, idiosyncrasies and so on and so forth.
We rise to the challenge (most of the time), but if a speaker says “union” instead of “unique”, or “lodger” instead of “lawyer” – what can we do?
Our conference comes to an end now – an international event bringing together people from all over the world. Me and my […]
Interpreter too have to pay taxes – a sad truth! Me being no exception, I spent the weekend before last working on […]
Yesterday I held my breath (well, for about 30 seconds or so); the world could have ended after all (although I wasn’t […]
…that means in reality that I spend 24+ hours at home, leaf through the mail after an absence of over two weeks, […]
