| Statement | Translation |
| "Can I help with dinner?" | "Why isn't it already on the table?" |
| "Uh huh," "Sure, honey," OR "Yes, dear." | Absolutely nothing. It's a conditioned response. |
| "It would take too long to explain." | "I have no idea how it works." |
| "I was listening to you. It's just that I have things on my mind." | "That girl standing on the corner is a real babe." |
| "Take a break, honey, you're working too hard." | "I can't hear the game over the vacuum cleaner." |
| "I was just thinking about you, and got these roses." | Translated: "The girl selling them on the corner was a real babe." |
| "Oh, don't fuss. I just cut myself, it's no big deal." | "I have actually severed a limb, but will bleed to death before I admit that I'm hurt." |
| "I can't find it." | "It didn't fall into my outstretched hands, so I'm completely clueless." |
| "What did I do this time? | "What did you catch me at?" |
| "I heard you." | "I haven't the foggiest clue what you just said, and am hoping desperately that I can fake it well enough so that you don't spend the next three days yelling at me." |
| "You know I could never love anyone else." | "I am used to the way you yell at me, and realize it could be worse." |
| "You look terriffic." | "Oh, God, please don't try on one more outfit, I'm starving." |
| "I'm not lost. I know exactly where we are." | "No one will ever see us alive again." |