And now with subtitles, just to be sure...

  • Room Service (RS): "Morny. Ruin sorbees"
  • Room service Translation (RST): "Morning, room service"
  • Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service"
  • RS: "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"
  • RST: "Right! Room service! Do you wish to order something?"
  • G: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs"
  • RS: "Ow July den?"
  • RST: "How would you like them?"
  • G: "What??"
  • RS: "Ow July den?...pry, boy, pooch?"
  • RST: "How would you like them? Fried? Boiled? Poached?"
  • G: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry. Scrambled please."
  • RS: "Ow July dee bayhcem...crease?"
  • RST: "How would you like the bacon? Crisp?" [=kross]
  • G: "Crisp will be fine."
  • RS: "Hokay. An San tos?"
  • RST: "OK. And some toast?"
  • G: "What?"
  • RS: "San tos. July San tos?"
  • RST: "Some toast. Would you like some toast?"
  • G: "I don't think so"
  • RS: "No? Judo one toes??"
  • RST: "No? You don?t want toast?"
  • G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what
  • 'judo one toes' means."
  • RS: "Toes! Toes!...why djew Don Juan toes?
  • Ow bow inglish mopping we bother?
  • RST: "Toast! Toast! Why do you don?t want toast [!!] ?
  • How about an English Muffin with butter?"
  • G: "English muffin! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.'
  • Okay, fine...Yes, an English muffin will be fine."
  • RS: "We bother?"
  • RST: "With Butter?"
  • G: "No, just put the bother on the side."
  • RS: "Wad?"
  • RST: "What?"
  • G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."
  • RS: "Copy?"
  • RST: "Coffee?"
  • G: "Sorry?"
  • RS: "Copy...tea...mill?"
  • RST: "Coffee? Tea? Milk?"
  • G: "Oh,yes.. Coffee please, and that's all."
  • RS: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem,
  • tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy ... rye?"
  • RST: "One minute. That's room twenty-three, scrambled eggs,
  • crisp bacon, toast and english muffin with butter on the side,
  • and coffee. Right?"
  • G: "Whatever you say"
  • RS: "Tendjewberrymud"
  • RST: "Thank you very much"
  • G : "You're welcome"

TRAVELLER IN THE FAR EAST TRIES ORDERING BREAKFAST

  • Note: this story is about how two people using the English language build up
  • a fine example of miscommunication. Read it aloud to yourself, pronounce it
  • just the way this text is written.
  • Room Service: "Morny, ruin sorbees"
  • Guest: "Sorry, I thought I dialled room service."
  • RS: "Rye..ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen?
  • G: "Uh..yes, i'd like some bacon and eggs"
  • RS: "Ow July den"
  • G: "What?"
  • RS: "Ow July den?..pry, boy, pooch?"
  • G: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled, please"
  • RS: "Ow July dee baychem...crease?"
  • G: "Crisp will be fine"
  • RS: "Hokay. An San tos?"
  • G: "What?"
  • RS: "San tos. July san tos?"
  • G: "I don't think so"
  • RS: "No? Judo one toes?"
  • G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes'
  • means"
  • RS: "Toes! Toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we
  • bother?"
  • G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast'. Fine, yes, an
  • English muffin will be fine"
  • RS: "We bother?"
  • G: "No, just put the bother on the side."
  • RS: "Wad?"
  • G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side"
  • RS: "Copy?"
  • G: "Sorry?"
  • RS: "Copy...tea...mill?"
  • G: "Yes, coffee please, and thats's all."
  • RS: "One minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache,
  • crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh,
  • and copy...rye?"
  • G: "Whatever you say"
  • RS: "Tendjewberrymud"
  • G: "You're welcome."

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