Dancing on Ropes explores some really interesting issues related to translation and interpretation。 Machine translation。 How can one translate humour？ The impact the drive for cost savings on court translations has had。 Translation as literary collaboration。 Aslanyan does it through all sorts of stories， some historical， some based on her own experience （and I wanted even more of the latter！）Some of the chapters were more interesting than others。 There were several， particularly near the start， Dancing on Ropes explores some really interesting issues related to translation and interpretation。 Machine translation。 How can one translate humour？ The impact the drive for cost savings on court translations has had。 Translation as literary collaboration。 Aslanyan does it through all sorts of stories， some historical， some based on her own experience （and I wanted even more of the latter！）Some of the chapters were more interesting than others。 There were several， particularly near the start， particularly dealing with historical topics， which I found a bit boring， and where it was unclear what the point was。 However， most were excellent， and since most of the more boring chapters were at the start， I finished on a high :） 。。。more