The Devil's Dictionary: Interpreter

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
INTENTION
INTERREGNUM

INTERPRETER

-n.

One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

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