Background info: the prof in question is a Japanese-to-Australian English translator who has done some interpreting in emergencies (it's an entirely different thought process, and you need entirely different training for it.)
Anyway, she was interpreting for an Australian documentary crew in Japan, and they all went out at one point for what amounted to an opportunity to drink a lot and tell dirty jokes and such, and she went with them and at one point had to stop interpreting because she was laughing so hard at the jokes.
One of the other stories she told was a situation in which she was interpreting for a patient in a doctor's office, and she had forgotten to tell the doctor that she was interpreting in the first person (when she said "I" she meant the patient). The patient was accusing the doctor of being racist and several other things, and the doctor got angry and threw her out because he thought she was insulting him, instead of the patient insulting him.
About the loan: my parents told me they'd rather I borrow money from them as I need it, rather than from a bank for more money than I really need but would have to pay back anyway. I can see their point, but it does have certain disadvantages.
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Date: 2003-10-29 12:36 pm (UTC)Anyway, she was interpreting for an Australian documentary crew in Japan, and they all went out at one point for what amounted to an opportunity to drink a lot and tell dirty jokes and such, and she went with them and at one point had to stop interpreting because she was laughing so hard at the jokes.
One of the other stories she told was a situation in which she was interpreting for a patient in a doctor's office, and she had forgotten to tell the doctor that she was interpreting in the first person (when she said "I" she meant the patient). The patient was accusing the doctor of being racist and several other things, and the doctor got angry and threw her out because he thought she was insulting him, instead of the patient insulting him.
About the loan: my parents told me they'd rather I borrow money from them as I need it, rather than from a bank for more money than I really need but would have to pay back anyway. I can see their point, but it does have certain disadvantages.