Thursday, March 5, 2009

Translations/dialects/misunderstandings

Why it's important to understand English
>
> I had a bunch of Canadian dollars I needed to exchange, so I went to the currency exchange window at the local
> bank.
> Short line. Just one lady in front of me . . . an Asian lady who was trying to exchange yen for dollars and she
> was a little irritated.
>
> She asked the teller, "Why it change?? Yesterday, I get two hunat dolla fo yen. Today I get hunat eighty?? Why
> it change?"
>
> The teller shrugged his shoulders and said, "Fluctuations". The Asian lady says, "Fluc you white people, too!"

Courtesy of Larry Allen Dean

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