nfb: this is a hoot

[wolfdogs]

To get the full effect, this should be read aloud. You will understand what 'tendjewberrymud' means by the end of the conversation! This has been nominated for best email of 2005. The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service, at a hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review:


Room Service (RS): "Morny. Ruin sorbees."

Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."

RS: "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"

G: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs."

RS: "Ouw July den?"

G: "What??"

RS: "Ouw July den?...pryd, boyd, poochd?"

G : "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."

RS: "Ouw July dee baychem? Crease?"

G: "Crisp will be fine."

RS : "Hokay. An Sahn toes?"

G: "What?"

RS:"An toes. July Sahn toes?"

G: "I don't think so."

RS: "No? Judo sahn toes??"

G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo sahn toes' means."

RS: "Toes! toes!...Why djew Don Juan toes? Ouw bow Anglish moppin we boter?"

G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine. "

RS: "We boter?"

G: "No...just put the boter on the side."

RS: "Wad?"

G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."

RS: "Copy?"

G: "Sorry?"

RS: "Copy...tea...mill?"

G: "Yes. Coffee, please, and that's all."

RS: "One Minnie. Scram egg, crease baychem, Anglish moppin we boter on sigh and copy....rye??"

G: "Whatever you say."

RS: "Tendjewberrymud."

G : "You're very welcome."

[gimp19]

WOW I feel enlightened

[95TransAm]

Reading aloud does help

[wood]

try working on a base where 75% of the civilian workers are either korean or phillipino.

I live this email at least once a week.

[wolfdogs]

try working on a base where 75% of the civilian workers are either korean or phillipino.

I live this email at least once a week.

oh..I have...in fact, my home of record is Hawaii....and for a long time, i was the only caucasion kid in my neighborhood... lived in japan, did a tour in okinawa, korea, viet nam........... tell ya... Asian folks do a lot better job of picking up on our language then we do theirs...... got give em that for sure...and English is supposed to be one of the hardest languages to learn.

[bru333]

oh..I have...in fact, my home of record is Hawaii....and for a long time, i was the only caucasion kid in my neighborhood...

Eh! Me too! Lived there 24 years, from 3rd grade on...Father's family is local (Big Island and Maui)...he joined the AF...moved us back home to retire...

Reading this makes me homesick for Palolo Valley!

[wolfdogs]

Eh! Me too! Lived there 24 years, from 3rd grade on...Father's family is local...he joined the AF...moved us back home to retire...

Reading this makes me homesick for Palolo Valley!

hey brah! da kin foster villiage idiot here! radford grad.........

place has really changed..waaaaaaaay too crowded now........

all my old surf spots...the secret ones..are no longer secret

[bru333]

hey brah! da kin foster villiage idiot here! radford grad.........

place has really changed..waaaaaaaay too crowded now........

all my old surf spots...the secret ones..are no longer secret

Castle grad here, and HCC and UH Manoa.

I know what you mean. I watched it get crowded through the 70's and 80's. My Mother and 1 Sister still on Oahu, and a bunch of other relatives I realy don't know too well spread out on all the islands. Went back to visit last year and couldn't believe how much it had changed in 5 years (last time I went back).

[Jeff_in_Atl]

oh..I have...in fact, my home of record is Hawaii....and for a long time, i was the only caucasion kid in my neighborhood... lived in japan, did a tour in okinawa, korea, viet nam........... tell ya... Asian folks do a lot better job of picking up on our language then we do theirs...... got give em that for sure...and English is supposed to be one of the hardest languages to learn.

Chinese was #1 hardest, then English. Note Chinese included dialects derived from it like Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese etc. Spanish was the easiest on the list I read. So that means it easier for them to learn English then for us to learn Chinese. There's something like 600 characters in Chinese. English only has 26.

[95TransAm]

There's something like 600 characters in Chinese. English only has 26.

600!!!!!

Wow, never knew that one....I wouldn't know where to start!

[fastTa]

That actually sounds alot like a Cuban accent rather than Chinese....but who's counting.

Funny theless!