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Post by ambersalamander on May 19, 2006 21:58:55 GMT
;D
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Post by luvlydory on Jun 6, 2006 0:18:02 GMT
Hung Chow calls into work and says, "Hey, I no come work today, I really sick boss . Got headache, stomach ache and legs hurt, I no come work." The boss says, "You know something, Hung Chow, I really need you today. When I feel like this, I go to my wife and tell her to give me sex. That makes everything better and I go to work. You try that." Two hours later Hung Chow calls again. "I do what you say and I feel great. I be at work soon.........You got nice house.
;D ;D
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Post by luvlydory on Jun 8, 2006 15:40:24 GMT
DOUBLE POST ALERT !!!!!!!!!!
I know, but nobody answered the last one and I've got another joke x
Five Englishmen in an Audi Quattro arrived at an Irish border checkpoint. Paddy the officer stops them and tells them: "It is illegal to put 5 people in a Quattro, Quattro means four". "Quattro is just the name of the automobile," the Englishman retorts disbelievingly. "Look at the papers: this car is designed to carry five persons." You cannot pull that one on me," replies Paddy "Quattro means four. You have five people in your car and you are therefore breaking the law. The Englishmen replies angrily, "You idiot! Call your supervisor over, I want to speak to someone with more intelligence!" "Sorry," responds Paddy, "Murphy is busy with 2 guys in a Fiat Uno."
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Post by ojiveojive on Jun 8, 2006 15:42:22 GMT
Your italian's remarkable for one so inexperienced
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Post by luvlydory on Jun 8, 2006 23:11:59 GMT
I am only inexperienced in the spoken language ! ;D
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Post by ambersalamander on Jun 9, 2006 13:45:11 GMT
One of my clients has Italian parents and the mum often calls the house to see how her daughter is. Thing is, her accent is so strong that I can't understand more than about 1 in every 4 words she says!
Fortunately, we've just acquired a new member of staff who is actually Italian herself, so whenever this lady phones, I get Maria to speak to her instead! This works to some extent...the problem is that the mum is from Sicily whereas my colleague is from the North, and they speak totally different dialects!
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Post by ojiveojive on Jun 11, 2006 19:24:10 GMT
the problem is that the mum is from Sicily whereas my colleague is from the North, and they speak totally different dialects! I know exactly what you mean. I've had 4 different italian teachers in the last three years. The first one, Andrea, was a lovely Austrian girl who spoke seven languages fluently, unfortunately all with a strong Austrian accent, jahwol! The second teacher was Italian from Ferrara, north of Bologna, she had been living and working in Holland for several years so all her teaching materials were in Dutch, yes, Dutch. The third and best, Marinella, was from Naples which is apparently the equivalent of learning italian as is learning english with a scouse accent, like Jan Molby. The fourth, who stood in for the last few weeks after Marinella returned to Naples due to her father dying was an american whose parents were sicilian, so no mafia jokes, eh? The upshot of this is that I can speak passable italian with an Austrian/Dutch/northeastern Italian/Neapolitan/Sicilian accent
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Post by luvlydory on Jun 12, 2006 8:09:00 GMT
personally I prefer pure and unadulterated. If you start tainting a beautiful foreign language with accents from elsewhere you could destroy the original. well done though - you faced all that adversary and still came through !
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