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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Aug 3, 2006 0:08:44 GMT -5
wow, that is very spread out. That would be hard. At least you'll always have somewhere to stay when you visit Brazil!
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Post by rockysigman on Aug 3, 2006 0:28:33 GMT -5
If Ryosuke and I knew each other back in the day, we would have wreaked havoc over metro Detroit. We'd be the wildest fucking elementary school brats in the world.
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Post by kmc on Aug 3, 2006 6:53:07 GMT -5
Ryo, tell your dad to move to the southernmost part of Brasil. Lots of immigrants who can help him transition.
Or he can come live with me. I could definitely use the help with rent.
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Post by Ryosuke on Aug 3, 2006 19:32:16 GMT -5
Or he can come live with me. I could definitely use the help with rent. "Dad, I know this guy on some Internet message board who wants live with you." Nope, can't see that happening  Plus, I bet you're 500 times sexier than my mother, so I'm afraid that you'll seduce him away from our family. Are you currently in Brazil btw? I was under the impression that you're based in the US., |
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Post by Ryosuke on Nov 27, 2006 20:37:47 GMT -5
A bit inspired to revive this thread by the "what's your accent" thread (which are kinda sorta similar).
I had always meant to ask this, but did you guys ever get the "say something in (whatever language you speak)" request when others find out that you're multilingual? I used to get that both in the US ("say something in Japanese!") and here ("say something in English!"), and I really hated it. I know that the intention was perfectly innocent, but it always felt awkward saying something that you know no one else will understand, as if you're talking to yourself really loud, and in front of people you know (who are listening in).
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Post by phil on Nov 27, 2006 21:16:15 GMT -5
Nope ! Can't say it ever happened to me ...
My guess is that french is not exotic enough !
On the other hand, I'd be rich now if I had get paid
for all the occasions I had to play translator while I was in France ...
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Post by Ryosuke on Nov 27, 2006 21:34:10 GMT -5
On the other hand, I'd be rich now if I had get paid for all the occasions I had to play translator while I was in France ... Yeah, I'm sure that all those translation jobs were lucrative, high-end ones French definitely counts as an exotic language where I live. But anyway, I'm not surprised that you never got any of that, since Quebec is a very bilingual environment (at least compared to Japan and the US). So is the Netherlands, so maarts might not have gotten any of that either. But maybe RocDoc or kenny might know what I'm talking about? |
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Post by RocDoc on Nov 28, 2006 15:32:30 GMT -5
I had always meant to ask this, but did you guys ever get the "say something in (whatever language you speak)" request when others find out that you're multilingual?
Oh yeah.
Hit 'em with something borderline filthy or insulting, but in a nice calm tone...and then tell them what you said so they'd really know what this foreign language had the potential for.
Several times I've been stuck in the middle of loud conversations in some foreign language (99% of the time Spanish) in which people are talking to one another loudly as though I wasn't there.
So I went and turned and focused eye-to-eye with one of the speakers and told them some sorta gibberish in Lithuanian.
They're rattling at each other past this 'dumb American' in front of them (where 99% of the time they could darn well speak whatever they were saying in English) and I found that this was a good way to have them have even just the teensiest 'WTF?' moment...and maybe realize what they were doing.
Minor satisfaction for me, but well...
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Post by strat-0 on Dec 18, 2006 20:50:22 GMT -5
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Post by sisyphus on Dec 18, 2006 23:43:08 GMT -5
i wish i had some opportunities to speak Czech once in a while... they're so rare. yet, it helps whilst watching the occassional slavic movie.
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Post by Ryosuke on Dec 19, 2006 0:19:27 GMT -5
I'm not sure how this is to be interpreted. Does she genuinely think that she might do this again inadvertently, or is this her way of rebelling against political correctness?
There's a comedian here who had this schtick where he'd impersonate all sorts of foreign languages (Chinese, French, Russian, what have you) but would actually be speaking gibberish. Except his version of gibberish Chinese was infinitely better than "ching chong."
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Post by maarts on Dec 19, 2006 5:13:42 GMT -5
Yeah, I saw The View with the Rosie-apology, explaining also that she was informed about what Chinese-Americans thought of the ching-chong being used (used as teasewords at playgrounds and schools and identified as such as being as bad as n****) and it did look like she was laughing it off.
It was clear though that she wasn't aware of the lingo she used being offensive as she just (poorly) tried to impersonate some Chinese words. Lord, these days everyone has long toes which are begging to be stepped on. The worst part for Rosie was that the joke was not even funny.
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Post by maarts on Dec 19, 2006 5:17:02 GMT -5
What strikes me is that the few people that I meet who claim to speak a few words Dutch only know swear words.
Godverdomme.
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Post by sisyphus on Dec 19, 2006 5:20:45 GMT -5
lol. it's always them thar cuss words whut gets attention! sheeeiiiittt!!
my best friend brandy has been working very hard to learn dutch for several years. she's really into it. has a good online friend in holland that she chats with on the phone all the time.
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Post by RocDoc on Dec 19, 2006 14:38:23 GMT -5
i wish i had some opportunities to speak Czech once in a while... they're so rare. yet, it helps whilst watching the occassional slavic movie.
I grew up among LOTS of Czechs here, so to hear them referred to as 'rare' is a little bit strange.
How Czech were you, sisyphus?
Or are you
I mean Sokol, Czech parishes, Czech school on Saturdays?
Czech Scouts?
That Czech? Or something a bit less?
Where'd you grow up?
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