Thursday, November 10, 2005

HEY, i can speak engrish, okays?

i work on an almost daily basis with johnny and he has a really strong hong kong accent. look, i love my friends in hong kong, but if you have good humour, you wont take this to offense. it is too good to keep to myself. read the following conversation out loud and keep in mind that johnny my good friend has a particularly strong hong kong accent.

self: hey johnny, what's the name of your director?
johnny: FOSher.
self: excuse me? what was that again?
johnny: FOSher.
self: i'm sorry, i did not get that again, could you spell that for me please?
johnny: SURE! f-for-SUgar ... no ... wait, i mean ... f-for-FAther, a-for-APper (apple), w-for ... w-for ... w-for ...
self: w-for-w, water?
johnny: YES! YES! w, c-for-CHEWren (children), e-for-ENGland.
self: mmhmmm
johnny: TOMmy! TOMmy!
self: er ... excuse me?
johnny: you KNOW, TOMmy TOMmy?
self: er ... i am sorry, i don't? is that his first name? Tommy Fawce?
johnny: NO, FAWce is his FIRST name.
self: OK, OK ... so Tommy is his ... last name?! (am incredulous at this point of time)
johnny: no no no no no, "T, "T", like TOMmy TOMmy
self: oh! you mean the letter "T"? T for Tommy?
johnny: yes, yes, corRECT!
self: (am extremely puzzled at strange name, but then again, we have met Echo-s, Tree-s, Apple-s, Psyche-s before too) so his first name again?
johnny: FAWce.
self: so his name is Fawce TT?
johnny: YES! YOU are ABsoLUTEly CORrect!
self: is he ... chinese?
johnny: NO, he WHITE guy.
self: (even more puzzled) OK, could you please give me his email address please?
johnny: SURE! P-E-T-E- (at this point of time, i give up. foshers, fawces, tommy-s, double Ts and now suddenly P-E-T-E etc etc?!)-R-dot-F-A-W-C-E-T-T

good lord, we take 5 minutes just to find out the guy's name is Peter Fawcett. i almost collapse sucking in breaths in order to hold back uncontrollable laughter.

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