Text 19699, 140 rader
Skriven 2011-06-03 23:52:37 av Stewart Arnett (3:772/100)
  Kommentar till text 19631 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Sense and sensibility
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Hello Roy.

01 Jun 11 08:39, you wrote to me:

 RW> 01 Jun 11 18:52, Stewart Arnett wrote to Roy Witt:

 SA>> Hello Roy.

 SA>> 30 May 11 08:56, you wrote to me: as a saecond reply !!

 RW>>> 30 May 11 17:11, Stewart Arnett wrote to Roy Witt:

 SA>>>> Er... Excuse me sir, But I will have you know I am English and
 SA>>>> not a Ruddy Kiwi!

 RW>>> I didn't say you were Kiwi,(you insinuated it) but while we're
 RW>>> on the subject; British English is even worse!

 RW>>> Oh, that's nothing. I went to the same schools attended
 RW>>> previously by Ulysses S. Grant and such other notables as Ronald
 RW>>> Reagan and Spencer Tracy.

 SA>> Sorry about that you poor thing, a failed general and two bad
 SA>> actors for guidance. No comparison at least Nelson won a battle
 SA>> or three.

 RW> A failed general he was not. Accepting the surrender of an even better
 RW> general made him popular in the USA. Leading to his presidency. Failed
 RW> actors I doubt, as one became the president of the actors guild,

They are hardly a qualification for acting, administration perhaps.

 RW> governor of a state and President of the USA. The other actor had
 RW> more
 RW> success as an actor, even winning a gold statue of your's truely. Not
 RW> to mention the beautiful woman he got to screw on the side.

 SA>>>> Stewart

 SA>>>> Ps, Hong Kong Chinese speak English with a Hong Kong accent
 SA>>>> (dialec) all of their own,

 RW>>> Don't tell that to the Chinese there who speak perfected
 RW>>> English.

 SA>> You won't find them as natives in Hong Kong only the imports.
 SA>> You've never been there to find out.

 RW> I only had them as neighbors in San Diego. They tell some interesting
 RW> stories of the times they lived there, you know. Spoke English like
 RW> they were native Americans too.

 SA>>>> I've never been wrong in telling a Chinaman he comes from Hong
 SA>>>> Kong since I left the place in 1973, same as I can recognise a
 SA>>>> person from Yanbian when they open their mouth to talk in The
 SA>>>> hangulmal. Ask around in the Chinese and Korean restaurants and
 SA>>>> listen you will find out I am correct

 RW>>> I ate at a chinese restaurant once, it was horrible. And then
 RW>>> there were the kitchen rats that tasted the food before it was
 RW>>> even cooked.

 SA>> Must have been an American one, probably run by mexicans with
 SA>> funny eyes.

 RW> The chinese didn't speak English, except to say hello and 'tank you
 RW> velly much'. The chinese who live in Mexico speak better English, but
 RW> their kitchens are even worse than those in San Diego.

Better environment for roaches no doupt!

 RW> BTW, Mexico's laws don't allow chinese to live anywhere but on the
 RW> northern and southern border areas. Explained to me by a Mexicali
 RW> business owner while we were eating in, you guessed it, a chinese
 RW> restaurant in Mexico.

It would have to be wouldn't it? ;)

 SA>>>>  HK Chinese have their own dialect when a bunch of them are
 SA>>>> together you will hear the diference it is not highly
 SA>>>> distinctive but it is there.

 RW>>> I had a crew of Chinese working for me at a brass foundry in San
 RW>>> Diego. There was one fellow among them who spoke English, or at
 RW>>> least he claimed to be their spokesman. One Friday at quitting
 RW>>> time, I fired him for not doing his job right and the rest
 RW>>> hopped to it when I gave them an order, even though they
 RW>>> pretended to not speak English. They must have known what I was
 RW>>> saying, as they did exactly what I wanted them to do after that.

 SA>> I've had similar with Koreans, but the other way round, I will
 SA>> always remember when a group of K.Y.C.F (Korean Young Christian
 SA>> Fellowship) Members were visiting for a BBQ at my house, I always
 SA>> have Korean lodgers living here. One of them got up to have
 SA>> cigarette outside end left the "Ranch Slider" open and another of
 SA>> them yelled out for him to close the ranch slider as it was
 SA>> making it draughty in Korean, I got up and closed it, then my
 SA>> lodger mentioned I was fluent in Korean, they were very quiet for
 SA>> a while as they had been talking about me in their own language,
 SA>> I hadn't bothered to mention I understood what they were saying!

 RW> A chinaman would have taken that very hard, as his pride would have
 RW> been jeopardized for talking about you in his language while you
 RW> understood everything he said.

 RW> Does that apply to Koreans too?

Well they were blushing and went very quiet for a few minutes, but stoking up
the table BBQ and a few bottles of Soju soon sorted it out.

 SA>>>> Most Koreans speak 'merican English, as most of the english
 SA>>>> teachers there studied with the Americans or in America other
 SA>>>> than the dozen or so I have taught 'proper' English to.

 RW>>> Ahhh, so you're the guy who gave them the idea they could speak
 RW>>> perfected English...

 SA>>>> Many are coming here to study English now as we are far less
 SA>>>> costly compared to your schools and the education is as good if
 SA>>>> not better.

 RW>>> Until they try to apply that 'ruddy' English in the states.

 SA>>>> The country is friendlier and safer for them and they can go
 SA>>>> camping and out in the bush with no fear of nasties other than
 SA>>>> the South Island sand flies.

 RW>>> Sand flies won't bother them much...they're used to sand flies.

 SA>> P'raps that's why it is good camping out with them, I have
 SA>> noticed the sand flies don't bother me when Koreans are arround
 SA>> ;)

 RW> LOL!

;)
Stewart

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