… my job now relies on my ability to be a multilingual translator. I work in a church, where we speak the language of church, albeit a progressive church sort of language that is much more comfortable for me than most. A big part of my job is being outside of the church, with people who have nothing to do with church and no reference for Churchese. I also work with groups of other Christians with whom we collaborate, who speak a whole different dialect of Churchese. I have to be able to converse with all of these people, and communicate to them what the other groups are doing and thinking.
As someone who learned one dialect of Churchese late in life, and has occasionally tried to translate between speakers of that dialect and non-Churchese-speakers, I say: you go, girl. We all need you.
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