On 7/8/2003 8:53 AM, Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:

> My favorite Doonesbury strips were the set where Duke was the U.S.
> Ambassador to China, and Honey was acting as his interpreter. Her
> interpretations included such gems as "He has concluded his joke now,
> and you are expected to laugh."

I've heard that interpreters really do say things like this sometimes. 
Not quite in those words, perhaps, but they might interject something 
along the lines of, "That comment contained an untranslatable pun, and 
was only intended as a joke."

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Scott Reynolds                                      sar@gol.com