• Todo eso le pasó por ser martes 13. El martes 13: supuesto día de mala suerte (bad luck day in Spanish with its counterpart Friday 13 in English -> . . . Friday 13

       • Biscocho, pastel, cake, torta, tarta -> A few variants of cake in Spanish countries

       • Espejuelos, gafas, lentes -> Some of the variants in Spanish for eyeglasses

       • Autobús, ómnibus, guagua, bus, camión -> Some equivalent variants of bus

       •  Vulgarities/profanities: Exercises including such terms always appear marked with an asterisk to warn the reader/trainee. They start appearing in the Intermediate section and are usually mingled with regular vocabulary. Some reasons for including these speech realizations are the following: Although this type of terminology may not be the rule in T-I work, it is certainly not the exception either. They happen more often than not in court and court-related proceedings such as trials, pre-trial interviews, jail interviews, psych-evaluations, depositions and so forth.

Examples:

       • ¡Coño!, ¡carajo! -> Damn it! (From a 911 call)

       • Ese pinche ladrón. . . (From a 911 call)

       • ¿Esa es la mierda que me va a dar el tipo éste? -> That's the piece of shit this guy is gonna give me?! (At sentencing, Miami XI District Court)

       It is pertinent to mention here that, on more than one occasion, this author was called to "urgently" replace an interpreter who simply "froze" when the defendant she was interpreting for in court suddenly started to use the kind of language illustrated above, at its worst. In those instances, the "freaked-out" interpreter had had little court experience. In a couple of cases, the interpreter had only served as one for religious conferences and events. They were good, fluent linguists in both English and Spanish, but had never handled this kind of vocabulary in front of an audience!

       • Business, Ads and Related Texts: Where the translator-interpreter becomes aware of different approaches to "sell" as practiced by companies and enterprises within totally different linguistic frameworks.

       Examples:

       o These items are on a permanent sale -> Estos artículos son una/están en ganga permanente / siempre con el precio rebajado (Mall stores).

       o Our new restaurant will be quick-casual -> de/con servicio rápido e informal (New West Coast-style restaurant ad).

       o No pets, no smoking, no late-night parties... -> No se permite fumar, no se permiten mascotas ni fiestas tarde (en la noche) (Rooms/Apartments for Rent in the Classified section, Mid West newspaper).

       • Functional and Comparative Grammatical and Lexical Phenomena: Where the translator-interpreter has to constantly "travel" from one given structure or approach to reality in the Source Language into other structures or approaches in the Target Language through transpositions, modulations, adaptations, compensations and other techniques. This type of activity enables students to become aware that the same reality is often approached quite differently in different languages.

       Examples:

       o Passive Voice: Alterations are made here -> Se hacen arreglos de/se arregla ropa aquí

       o Uses of the Gerund: Smoking is dangerous -> (el) fumar es peligroso

       o Noun Adjuncts: washer, dryer hookup... -> conexión para lavadora y secadora...

       o . . . mirando el ir y venir de la gente -> . . . watching people come and go

       o I love black and white films -> Me encantan las películas en blanco y negro

       o El niño está sucio de pies a cabeza -> The kid/boy is dirty from head to toe

   &nbs

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