Nothing to do with translation but the above stories remind me of the joke about the use of words. A teacher asked her class to put the words "pistol too" in a meaningful sentence. Little Mary stood and said, "Blackbeard was a pirate. He had a cutlass and a pistol too." "Very good" said the teacher, "Johnny, will you give us an example?" "Yes, Miss," said Johnny, "My dad goes down the pub every night, and he is on the piss till two." Collapse of class.