Richard Roeper Quotes

So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.

Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only eat food without preservatives" into Italian. They warned me, however, as they taught me how to say it, that the Italian word for "preservatives" is the same as the word for "condom." So that I should be careful how I look when I say it.

For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

Translation is the art of failure.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying.

What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

Even when well translated. can we really understand what other cultures are talking about?

I had to struggle with the language. I can understand Hindi now, but I still can't communicate. And things get lost in translation; I feel rejected all the time.

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a translator with us.

I have some English words on the first album, but any time I try to do it, you miss something. You think it's just a simple translation from French to English, but it's so different as far as the understanding.

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

When it comes down to, it's not about the form, it's about the content.

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.

Language is very deceiving. In certain languages, there is certain vocabulary that doesn't exist in other languages. It totally changes how people feel about things.

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.