Re: OT: Junk
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 12, 2003, 23:03 |
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John Cowan wrote:
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.
>
Not quite as dire as my experience with mis-hearing Sino-English. While
having dim-sum in Detroit (I know, an unlikely idea), we asked the waitress
what was in one of the dumplings, and all 3 of us distinctly heard "cat
meat", which she finally clarified to [kw&p?mi?], which {crab}indeed it
turned out to be. Delicious too.
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