Foreign Language Nightmare

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Foreign Language NIGHTMARES...

 

This is meant to be read aloud (for the full effect). By the end of the conversation, you will understand what 'tendjewberrymud' means.

 

 

This was nominated for one of the best e-mails of 1999. 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): "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 inglish 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 welcome."