Stupid TouristsWhat's the stupidest thing you've ever heard a tourist say? Ever heard an American talking about visiting "Scotchland, England", or (and this one is actually real) a Japanese couple talking about the correct way to say Clapham is actually Clatham, as "ph" sounds are pronounced "th". Which has a certain logic really. UPDATE: Please, no more Loogabarooga stories. It's getting like, "and I opened my eyes and my mum had left me a cup of tea!"
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chthonic, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 16:31)
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Less stupid, more surprisingwith a group of mates on school trip in germany, my friend (a fair linguist) needs to get to the post office for reasons that have become lost in time, but has been practicing how to ask for directions, he stops a man to ask and is antogonised untill he can get the exact accent even though he was more then understandable, eventually he gets the directions thanks the man and we head off. Just then we hear the man turn to our teacher and compliment friend on his german in perfect english. turns out he was a german teacher from england visiting. bastard.
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Puffin Boy, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 14:11,
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