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Location: Carle Place, NY | 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): "Morrin. Roon sirbees."
Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."
RS: "Rye..Roon sirbees..morrin! Jewish to oddor sunteen??"
G: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs."
RS: "Ow July den?"
G: "What??"
RS: "Ow July den?...pryed, boyud, poochd?"
G: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."
RS: "Ow July dee baykem? 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 wan sahn toes??"
G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo wan sahn toes' means."
RS: "Toes! toes!...Why jew don juan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?"
G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."
RS: "We bodder?"
G: "No...just put the bodder on the side."
RS: "Wad?"
G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."
RS: "Copy?"
G: "Excuse me?"
RS: "Copy...tea...meel?"
G: "Yes. Coffee, please, and that's all."
RS: "One Minnie. Scramah egg, crease baykem, Anglish moppin we bodder on sigh and copy....rye??"
G: "Whatever you say."
RS: "Tenjewberrymuds."
G: "You're very welcome." |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | having spent alot of time in Asia...this is perfectly clear to me. |
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Location: closely held secret | Having spent a lot of time at McDonalds, it's perfectly clear to me, as well. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Have it their way....have it their way |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | :D if I lived longer in Asia, I prolly would sound just like that when I speak ... oh wait a minute ... that WAS me! :D |
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Location: East Tennessee | As posted by Waskel;
Having spent a lot of time at McDonalds, it's perfectly clear to me, as well.
It sounded a lot like in a recent telephone conversation I had to change my wife's cell phone number. I'm not trying to belittle anyone with an accent, ( I was born in the Bronx, raised in upstate New York,and have lived in Tennesse for the past ten years. It's a wonder anyone can understand me. :D ), but it is difficult to communicate sometimes. :) |
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OT-Tenjewberrymuds???