Thursday, August 30, 2007

Yeah, but I can't speak a lick of Asian

 Afternoon EggLOL

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 FarEast 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: "Ow July den?"

G: "What??"

RS: "Ow July den?...pry, boy, pooch?

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

RS: "Ow July dee bayhcem...crease?"

G: "Crisp will be fine."

RS: "Hokay. An San tos?"

G: "What?"

RS: "San tos. July San tos?"

G: "I don't think so"

RS: "No? Judo one toes??"

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

RS: "Toes! toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?"

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

RS: "We bother?"

G: "No...just put the bother 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. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??"

G: "Whatever you say"

RS: "Tendjewberrymud"

G: "You're where-cum."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

¿Qué?

Anonymous said...

Que?...We don got da que in the monnin tine..Got the que in da runch tine den we hab the chocrit oh da banell que.

Anonymous said...

Sorry, but rather than make fun, the guy's lucky, going to a country where he didn't speak a word of their language, that someone in the hotel could speak English at all. If someone from Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia or Japan came to a US hotel speaking no English, how many Americans in the city, much less the hotel could talk those languages. We really live in a bubble here.

When I was in thailand I was mad it was the first country where the coins didn't have the denominations in numbers, but then I realized that neither do ours. Dime, quarter dollar. How can someone with no English know what's what?

Anonymous said...

>>Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia or Japan

Hey Anon, wanna know the flaw in your analogy? Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia don't matter one damned bit.

Golden rule applies.

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