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| Thread ID: 103701 | 2009-10-03 10:36:00 | A True Story | Twelvevolts (5457) | PC World Chat |
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| 816426 | 2009-10-03 10:36:00 | Asian guy comes into Johnsonville McDonalds and is asked for is order. "I'll have a mighty anus with cock" Staff look puzzled and ask again what the customer is after. "I'll have a mighty anus with cock". They're about to call the Manager to have the guy thrown out for being a smart arse when they realise he is after a Mighty Angus with Coke. |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 816427 | 2009-10-03 11:07:00 | So based on that the staff should have realised that the person had an accent that they can't understand. Should McDonalds upskill the staff or should McDonalds employ interpreters much like the UN does or courts do. All retailers should employ people based on the fact that they can use the two languages which are official in New Zealand possibly. Then when a maori person wants to ring a help desk possibly based in Manila I would expect that the person at the other end would be proficient in Te Reo Maori. Some years ago there was an attempt to have a worldwide language. I think it was called Esperanto but sadly this failed I believe. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 816428 | 2009-10-03 11:11:00 | Why not all just speak english, its not like is the hardest most poorly structured language there is | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 816429 | 2009-10-03 11:31:00 | Why not all just speak english, its not like is the hardest most poorly structured language there is Well there is American sort of English for example which is entirely different to that spoken by born and bred K1W1 s. Kiwis speak a mixture of all sorts ( not of the liquorice variety) as most people do over the whole world. So there is NewZild, Strine and etc. Then of course we have people on PressF1 who spell a word the way it is pronounced like wallah for Voila (French) for example. Personally I am pleased I was born and bred in NZ and NewZild is my native language. I try to make myself understood when I visit Australia but when I first visited I could not figure out what an Ambo was in a newspaper just for example. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 816430 | 2009-10-03 11:36:00 | I sorta learnt japanese at school and even though I couldnt get the hang of the different contexts (cant think of the word, but different way of saying something be it in a formal situation or casual etc) it still seemed to make a hell of a lot more sense that english. At least theres a logical reason behind their sentence structures |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 816431 | 2009-10-03 11:56:00 | I sorta learnt japanese at school and even though I couldnt get the hang of the different contexts (cant think of the word, but different way of saying something be it in a formal situation or casual etc) it still seemed to make a hell of a lot more sense that english. At least theres a logical reason behind their sentence structures English does not make sense in my view anyway. Take things like "rough" pronouced ruff. Then "bough" one would think should be buff but not so. I will not go into things like desert or dessert but we have to look at all the surrounding words to comphrehend the meaning do we not? Take for example the sentence "I was a deserter and deserted the desert and ate a dessert? Errrrkkkk. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 816432 | 2009-10-03 11:59:00 | Id like to know how us white people managed to come up with that sorta rubbish | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 816433 | 2009-10-03 12:10:00 | Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill Tour, on language. (www.youtube.com) | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 816434 | 2009-10-03 12:12:00 | Take for example the sentence "I was a deserter and deserted the desert and ate a dessert? Errrrkkkk. Well, realistically, what are the chances someone would have the reason to say a sentence like that? :p |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 816435 | 2009-10-03 12:23:00 | From the computer game Monkey Island How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck could chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can't chuck wood. But if a woodchuck could chuck and would chuck some amount of wood, what amount of wood would a woodchuck chuck? Even if a woodchuck could chuck wood and even if a woodchuck would chuck wood, should a woodchuck chuck wood? A woodchuck should chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, as long as a woodchuck would chuck wood. |
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