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Paramedics Use Google Translate While Delivering Baby
First time accepted submitter myatari writes Irish paramedics transporting a pregnant Congolese woman to a maternity hospital in Cork had to use some quick thinking when the mum-to-be went into labor en-route. The two paramedics (neither of whom speak Swahili) fired up Google Translate to communicate via English-Swahili and successfully delivered baby girl "Brigid" (named after an Irish Saint no less!).
I'm a husband and I feel that google translate is missing the most important language: "english"->"wife". When she says "Do I look ok in this dress?" and I say "yep.", she seems to hear something different.
It'd help clear up many misunderstandings.
I'm sorry, there are vowels in that. It's obviously misspelled.
The trick is that you give her an answer but not an answer to specifically her question, and then shift it to a different conversation. For instance:
Wife: Honey, do I look ok in this dress?
Husband: Babe, you look great in everything but even better out of it.
If you follow it up with trying to get her out of it, and do it enough times, eventually she'll start to ask you less. Or at least that is what I hope will someday happen with my wife.
"A certain woman who had taken the vow of chastity fell, through youthful desire of pleasure and her womb swelled with child. Brigid, exercising the most potent strength of her ineffable faith, blessed her, causing the child to disappear, without coming to birth, and without pain. She faithfully returned the woman to health and to penance."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Brigid
Was the mother of that child trying to hint something with that choice of name?
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