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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Entirely appropriate...JUST got back from work, happily teaching English to a load of Poles. We were talking about phrasal verbs (for the ungrammatical, thats where two words fit together to make a verb.) Asking around the class for examples. Take off, put on, turn out, blow up; all came up.
"I don't know if is good English," came the smooth, deadpan voice of Piotr, a typical Pole," but, err... how to say... fuck off?"
Speechless. Utterly speechless.
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Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 12 Jul 2005, 13:44,
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