Tenjewberrymuds

[Traveler]

The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service, at a hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review:

To get the full effect, this should be read aloud. You will understand what 'tenjewberrymuds' means by the end of the conversation. This has been nominated for the best email of 2005.

Room Service (RS): "Morrin. Roon sirbees."

Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."

RS: "Rye..Roon sirbees..morrin! Jewish to oddor sunteen??"

G: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs."

RS: "Ow July den?"

G: "What??"

RS: "Ow July den?...pryed, boyud, poochd?"

G : "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."

RS: "Ow July dee baykem? Crease?"

G: "Crisp will be fine."

RS : "Hokay. An Sahn toes?"

G: "What?"

RS:"An toes. July Sahn toes?"

G: "I don't think so."

RS: "No? Judo wan sahn toes??"

G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo wan sahn toes'

means."

RS: "Toes! toes!...Why jew don juan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?"

G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."

RS: "We bodder?"

G: "No...just put the bodder on the side."

RS: "Wad?"

G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."

RS: "Copy?"

G: "Excuse me?"

RS: "Copy...tea...meel?"

G: "Yes. Coffee, please, and that's all."

RS: "One Minnie. Scramah egg, crease baykem, Anglish moppin we bodder on sigh and copy....rye??"

G: "Whatever you say."

RS: "Tenjewberrymuds."

G : "You're very welcome."

[Guest Member_Deleted]

LOL... that hurt my head... trying to figure out what was being said...

[Traveler]

Originally posted by Please@Oct 20 2005, 02:48 PM

LOL... that hurt my head... trying to figure out what was being said...

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You just don't know - this just as well could have been me. On my 2nd trip to Taiwan my company had me take a bus from Taipei to Tainen to save money. There is no experience like this on this side of the world. I missed my stop by two stops and it took me 2 hours to find a taxi and find a way to tell the driver where I was going.

The way English is spoken starts to rub off - when I got back home my wife could not understand me for a couple of days.

PS - it is even worse when you try to learn their language saying "wo" (or anything Chinese) has at least 5 different meanings pending how you say it and has the opposite meaning if the tone goes up or down at the end of the word. The good thing is the the Asians are the nicest (most polite) people in the world.

The Traveler

[Lindy]

Thanks Trav!

That was fun!

A little room service 101 :)

[ldsgurl_2002]

i had to keep repeating the stuff to find out what it said..lol