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3rd January 10, 05:51 PM
#1
Oh Canada
Reminds me of when I lived in Vermont, a friend from the Northeast Kingdom who spoke French encountered a gendarme while traveling with friends in France, they were stopped and she engaged him in her patois from the North Country. The French cop leaned i nto the car and asked, "Does anyone here speak French?"
Apparently the US and UK are not the only two countries separated by a common language!
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3rd January 10, 08:54 PM
#2
Something similar happened to my wife some years ago. We were in a restaurant, on holiday in Cebu, Philippines and my wife ordered some food in Tagalog, her first language – she’s a Manila girl. The waitress replied in local Cebuano language. As neither could understand the other, they turned to English. I was amused to see 2 Filipinas speaking English to each other in the Philippines.
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4th January 10, 05:30 AM
#3
****** (US) = gay man (perj.)
****** (UK) = beef/onion meatball in gravy; piece of firewood
Being a family site, you work out the potential English/American confusion.
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