It's hard to say.................

[Pajaro]

Tenjooberrymuds...



Although world travelers will recognize this exchange, it could also happen at a local fast-food restaurant, unfortunately! We all need to become experienced in a new language … slaughtered English. By the time you read through this, you too will start to understand, “TENJOOBERRYMUDS!”

The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service:

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

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

RS: " Jess ... dis es roon sirbees ... goomorrin! Joowish to oddor sunteen???"

G: "Uh ... Yes, I'd like to order bacon and eggs."

RS: "Ow July den?"

G: "... What??"

RS: "Ow July den?!? ... pryed, boyud, pooch?"

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 Joo don Juan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?"

G: "Oh, 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 the butter on the side."

RS: "Copy?"

G: "Excuse me?"

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

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

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

G: "Whatever you say."

RS: "Tenjooberrymuds."

G: "You're welcome."

[utbva]

Tenjooberrymuds for that exchange.

I have done that plenty of times. You just hope that is what you are going to get.

[minowevie]

Thats to funny. Tenjooberrymuds. I think he said tink yo very much. but wonder what he got for breakfast.

[ajay]

I actually spilled some of my morning coffee reading that. It's fairly accurate. I have travelled a lot and can relate to that exchange.

[Woodbutcher68]

That room service guys works in support for Microsoft and Dell too!

[sawdustus]

Now that's funny. Tenjooberrymuds says it all. I am always grateful when I get a live person on the phone and they are understandable. After 34 years of teaching school, I can usually understand most accented English but I have made it a habit to ask phone support to repeat what they have just said if I have trouble understanding them and if that does not work after several tries, I ask to speak someone who speaks English without an accent. I may be politically incorrect by doing so, but if I need information or help I want to understand it.