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[fuego.livejournal.com]

This little gem came over the lines yesterday...

Fuego: "Thanks for calling *My Employer!* This is Fuego, may I have your first name?"
Response: "Yo, lemme talk to someone that be talking English, yo! I'm not tryin to be talkin to someone I can't be understandin'"

My Babelfish just started crying at that one.

Comments

I'm _gagging_ for flames on this one...

[jecook]

I is sorry suh, we don speak eubonics heu.

[canthlian.livejournal.com]

What did he think you were speaking? Lilliputian?

[dangermouse74.livejournal.com]

perhaps a response in pig latin would have been appropriate....

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Your response should be:

Fuego: I don't know about you, but I am speaking english. I could speak eubonics but my employer frowns upon slang and unrecognised lanugages in the world.

[greylady.livejournal.com]

In order for that to be true, Fuego would have to use a British accent... Most people on the American continents speak "American English" not actual "English"...

I only find this amusing because occasionally I have to mentally translate things while on calls from the UK.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well I just faked a jersey accent for about 3 minutes whilst talking to a user...that made my brain hurt,.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

HA! You are right. My husband learned British English and screws with my head on purpose trying to trip me up. He thinks it is funny.

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

somehow remembers me to that "subtitles" video with the interview of the irak-guys :)

[methedras.livejournal.com]

Better yet, I've seen American made documentaries and news reports with subtitles for english people speaking english.

The damn english! Wtf?

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

british english, cambridge english and american english are very different :)
americans: "Jo Man! What the fuck happend ? you look bloody awfull today!"
english: "hello sir, anything wrong with you ? you look so pale. should i call an doctor ?"
geeks: "huh ? no, i think you look normal"
wanne-be-geeks: "LOL! WTF? Go 2 s33 teh d0c!"
stressed people: "911! 911!"

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Hm, I've seen much more of the reverse. UK English TV with subtitles for the US audience. And I have definitely seen US TV with subtitles for their *own* audiences - not just when the speech was garbled - and *I* could understand what they were saying!

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

Weeeeeee, someone call the irony police!

[brotherflounder]

I pity your poor Babel Fish. If he needs a bit of a break, my friend grabbed a few off of a Vogon freighter last week.

=P