Sunday, April 16, 2006

It's interesting when you meet people who speak English, but..well.. just don't get the sentence structure. As in they can mostly function (in India only) if they need to. Example:
Aparna and I were at Coffee Day and we were done eating and I guess the place was getting packed. The waiter comes to us and says,

"Customers are waiting. You can move."
I looked at him and said, "I'm sorry?"
"Customers are waiting here. You can move."
"I can, huh," I replied. "Thank you."

What he MEANT was, "There are customers waiting, would you please move?" But they dont get that here because of their native languages being structured differently than English. And he didn't even inflect his voice up at the end, which made it all the more confusing. Whatever. I didn't say anything, and I left, clearly annoyed.

Anyway, more stuff tomorrow....

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