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One can reasonably expect the person being interpreted to respond to the interpretation with, "that's what I said."

 

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== Film ==

* In ''[[Dogma]]'', The Metatron is this to God, who is [[The Voiceless]]. Well, he has his own voice present but it causes all humans' head and hearts to explode<ref> it took them several Adams to figure this one out</ref>. Thus the Metatron is the voice of god.

* C3PO does it for R2-D2, who is [[The Unintelligible]] in ''[[Star Wars]]''.

** Worth noting that Han is not this to Chewbacca: He tends to talk to him by holding normal conversations, and generally everyone acts as if they understood Chewie, there's never some translating going on - mostly because everyone seems to understand Chewie fine.

* A running gag in ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (Literature)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' is that Bertie has to translate whatever Jeeves is saying for the benefit of one of his "pals", most of whom are [[Upperclass Twit|Upper Class Twits]].

{{quote| "[[Zany Scheme|The scheme I would suggest]] cannot fail of success, but it has what may seem to you a drawback, sir, in that it requires a certain financial outlay."<br />

 

 

Morgan: Yeah. It's probably one guy. }}

* Daphne (who signs, reads lips, and speaks) somewhat operates as this literally for Emmett (who signs, apparently does read lips, but doesn't speak) on ''[[Switched At Birth (TV)|Switched At Birth]]''.