"Burbank police Detective Mark Metelski often makes a special connection with some of the people he meets on the job.
As one of the department's three translators, Metelski, who speaks Polish, said residents appreciate that he speaks their language." - Northwest Herald
Feb 10, 2005
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I agree 100%. I'd say that the translator/interpreter misunderstanding is one of the most common. I've found that it's difficult at best to educate people about the difference because of the media's disinterest in the difference. While I was studying at the university, I even had professors of linguistics and languages use the terms interchangeably and when confronted on the matter, they simply responded, "Oh, you know what I mean." Pretty disheartening to say the least.
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