Friday, November 2, 2007

Learning English

In a room in Skypeland advertised to be "welcome tou my room to devllop you're english" (just serious people descussing and talking .....), I heard an amazing sequence of comments. A bunch of Arabic-people just chattered away in Arabic. One tried to tell a joke in English; "An Arabian man went to the US. In America, the man wants to park. So he asks a police man if he can bark there. And the policeman says yes he can park there." At this, the entire room collapsed in laughter. The host said she had heard that one before from her English teacher. They also loved to refer to Skype as "Skypie", a common mistake I have noticed. Someone drunk from Finland with an atrociously thick accent said that people in Spain speak bad English because their movies are all American movies and dubbed, because they have no culture. Someone from Poland agreed. The Finnish man said that people in Scandanavia are afraid to speak English. The Polish man said he was a big Reggae fan and endeavored to speak English with a Jamaican accent. He talked about how much he liked to smoke ganja. He said that no matter where he went in Europe, people knew one or two Polish words, especially how to say "fuck" in Polish. The Polish man went to bed, and then the Finnish man started to rant and rave, saying "I wanna suck some cock" and other nonsense.

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