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

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Mon Aug 13 19:48:02 UTC 2012


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Danke schoen.

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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
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> Wilson Gray
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> 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.
>
> --
> -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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