"Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!" (UNCLASSIFIED)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Aug 13 19:43:52 UTC 2012


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
> I plead ignorance -- what is the difference between translator and interpreter?

An interpreter works in real time with the spoken form of languages,
whereas a translator works at leisure with the written form of
languages.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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