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Old 08-01-2011, 10:19 PM   #29
ZenGum
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr View Post
I do not speak or understand politics, religion, or bullshit.
Sir, you repeat yourself.

I speak English, Strayan, some German and some Japanese.

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
Our boss would speak to them in English, but with a painfully stereotyped, drawn out Spanish accent. "Joo wanna peeesa por deeliberry, mang?" And I swear to god, most of them were able to understand.
Quite a lot of Japanese just is English with an accent. They even use a special phonetic script (katakana) to write foreign loan words, so they're easy to pick out.

Sando................Sandwich
Digi-Cam............Digitial Camera
Furatto Sheetsu....Flat Sheets
Pirro keisu...........Pillow case
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