Je ne parle pas Francois tres bien.
Or something pretty close to that covers my ability to speak French.
I'll bet you've been waiting a lifetime to tell that one.
Hahahaha!
That's funny
> I had a bunch of Canadian dollars I needed to exchange, so I went to the currency exchange window at the local bank.
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> Short line.
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> Just one lady in front of me . . an Asian lady who was trying to exchange yen for dollars and she was a little irritated . . .
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> She asked the teller, "Why it change?? Yestaday, I get two hunat dolla fo yen. Today I get hunat eighty?? Why it change?"
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> The teller shrugged his shoulders and said, "Fluctuations" .
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> The Asian lady says, "Fluc you white people, too!
Excellent!
Having had teaching assistants and professors with a variety of accents in college at UF, I am quite accustomed to deciphering what people with accents are saying, although I will admit, I sometimes have to focus on their words...
The company I work for has had a party chief for several years now that works out of our satellite office. His accent shows that he is from a foreign country, but it is difficult to place exactly where he is from by his accent, it's not an accent commonly found in the US. From time to time, he calls with technical questions about our GPS equipment or total stations, and he is always transferred to me because I am apparently the only person in my office who can understand him on the phone.
Several years ago, an architect client was passed along to me because "he asks too many questions, and I can't understand his accent". I had two years of Spanish in high school, I understand the client's accent just fine.
I've seen comments from surveyor's who think the 4-year degree requirement is absurd for our profession. However, obtaining my 4-year degree taught me how to understand someone with a heavy foreign accent babbling to me at 7:20AM about calculus. Listening to someone with an accent ramble about a surveying question after 8AM is far easier than calculus ever was. 🙂
hey Steve
my co-worker somehow irritated a French waiter (in southern France) and the guy called him a Piece of Sheet.
The whole story of his experience in that particular eating establishment is pretty humorous.