Re: OT: Junk

>Just L & T and Ramsey, *and* this mailing list, *and* the WWW.  Thenk kyew.
>And after all, if it weren't for my intimate knowledge of Chinese phonology,
>I'd never have been able to order fried bread from Tina's (recommended
>for downtown Manhattanites).  The order-taker couldn't make out what I
>wanted (I think she thought I was saying "fried ribs").  Finally, I said
>[f@'r\aIt b@'r\Et], with unexploded final stops, and all was well.
LOL  This reminds me of a story told by the mother of one of my son's
classmates.  She is an American married to a Japanese man.  She says that
whenever they go out to Asian restaraunts, her husband insists that they be
*authentic*.  (I assume that this means Asian owned and operated.)  They
were once looking over the menu in a Chinese restaraunt, and she noticed
that some of the dishes were touted as being "row carorie."  She pointed
this out to her husband and told him, "Yoshi, I think this place is authentic."

Isidora