When the moment arrives, and it will, remember-we are interpreters, we use our words.
Tag: skill
Rule 379
Interpreting. It’s hard. So you will cry. It’s important. So you will try.
Rule 378
Saturday’s are for sleeping off interpreting from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. in the emergency room.
Rule 377
If you have to interpret about something on the underside of a car, set up the car visually, lift-up the car you set-up and show your client the underside. You can lift it. It’s not a real car.
Rule 371
“Can you recommend someone who will charge less and can do the job with just one interpreter?”
Anyone who would take on that assignment for less than I quoted and attempt it alone I would never recommend. If you find someone who will, that should be your first clue it’s the wrong interpreter for the job.
Rule 365
Actual quote from a medical office manager after 40 minutes of arguing with me, in my lawyer role, about the doctor’s legal obligations regarding interpreters:
If I was Hearing Impaired I would be embarrassed having to ask for help all the time from interpreters. I do not wish to play a part in humiliating some poor Hearing Impared person further.
My actual response:
Being that sanctimonious must be much easier for you because you are so stupid.
I worked it out with their attorney, who was far less stupid.
Rule 364
There is a point where every interpreting student asks, “Why did I learn all that ASL vocabulary?”
