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Very entertaining, lukezim.

posted by saul_relative on April 1, 2008 at 8:20 AM | link to this | reply

hammer
Thanks for your fedback. I read your posts and had a good laugh about the hammer story. It's happened to me many times that people don't get my pronunciation unless you say it in context or in their accent (like my "babaroni bizza" story in the UAE).

posted by lukezim on March 31, 2008 at 8:48 PM | link to this | reply

I love language
When we studied Vietnamese, one of the students insisted on mispronouncing a certain phrase. The instructor, Ba (Mrs.) Hong (Rose) said patiently, "Ong (Mr.) Phetton (Preston), it is said 'Khong sau' (Komb saow), not 'Khong sau' (komb sew). Komb saow means 'It doesn't matter', Komb sew means 'no sweat.'"

Of course, he knew what he'd been saying all the time. :)

posted by Halfelven on March 31, 2008 at 3:40 PM | link to this | reply

These are cool.
I carried a smile the whole time I read it. Crackpot thinking.

posted by SomeoneElse on March 31, 2008 at 10:29 AM | link to this | reply

I am so enjoying these excerpts with the language!  sam

posted by sam444 on March 31, 2008 at 6:54 AM | link to this | reply

Ha, my friend, how funny. Stories to my heart. Read my post English, English? on vogue3.

posted by vogue on March 31, 2008 at 4:27 AM | link to this | reply