There you are going about your day and then it happens. You don’t think much about it until later when it happens again. No!, you think to yourself, it is only allergies. These sneezes can’t mean… Oh crap! I have a cold. Within a short time, the eyes begin to water, the nose stops up […]

One of the strangest skills that I had to get used to as an interpreter was referring to myself in the third person. Instead of saying, ‘doctor can you repeat that,’ I instead say, ‘the interpreter requests a repetition’. Who talks like that? Interpreters. We also say such things as ‘the interpreter needs to clarify’ […]