Thursday, June 22, 2006

Lost in Translation

Oh, one other funny thing and then I'm going to bed:

At lunch, when I was talking to the young lady, I was showing her all of the things on the Jackson postcard. One of them is Rocky Holler and there's a picture of a trailer with hay because they do hay rides.

Now try to think about explaining "hay ride" to someone who doesn't speak much English. Gestures can't really help you there.

I asked Toshie, your interpreter, to come over and help.

When the translation was done, they girl spoke. Toshie translated her puzzled response back:

"This is fun for you?"

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