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GaryG
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Feb 4, 2003

Well, my most, uh, memorable interpreting experience was when I was on vacation in Nassau, the Bahamas in 1979 and during the week made the acquaintance of a sleazy Serb and and couple of almost-as-sleazy women from Atlanta, Georgia.



One night near the end of the week the Serb asked me to ask one of the women to come to him room. I had to translate back \"I\'m not that kind of girl\" (or he wasn\'t her kind of guy\" back into Russian.



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Well, my most, uh, memorable interpreting experience was when I was on vacation in Nassau, the Bahamas in 1979 and during the week made the acquaintance of a sleazy Serb and and couple of almost-as-sleazy women from Atlanta, Georgia.



One night near the end of the week the Serb asked me to ask one of the women to come to him room. I had to translate back \"I\'m not that kind of girl\" (or he wasn\'t her kind of guy\" back into Russian.



Much more colorful than my interpreting between an Uzbek and a Tajik I met at a Smithsonian concert of Central Asian music and dance. One of them wanted to get together at some function the next day but only one knew Russian, so I had to be the \"bridge\" between them to make the arrangements. ▲ Collapse
 
cherepanov
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Two options of the answer Feb 4, 2003

There are two types of answers in Russian:

1)ß íå òàêàÿ!

2) Çà êîãî Âû ìåíÿ ïðèíèìàåòå!?
[addsig]
 
GaryG
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Thanks for the varianty! Feb 11, 2003

Indeed, I chose the 1st option, adding \"zhenshchina\'
 


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