Lost in Translation

[petercoyl]

Today was Stake Conference for the Taipei Central Stake. The English speakers got to wear headsets and have it translated so we could participate in the meetings. There are about 6 men who served Chinese speaking missions and so they translated. During one of the talks there was laughter and one of the translators said, "Sorry guys I have no

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[paulistano]

This almost exact same thing happened when I was translating for some Americans in my Brazilian ward a few weeks ago. There was a joke that was funny if you knew Brazilian culture and how to speak Portuguese, but it did not translate to English. So I just said "They told a joke" and they cracked up with everyone else, haha.