[Spridgets] Lanuage
RampantNM at aol.com
RampantNM at aol.com
Fri Jan 18 10:38:43 MST 2008
In a message dated 1/17/2008 6:22:52 PM Mountain Standard Time,
spridgets-request at autox.team.net writes:
Southern:
Hey girl, woudya grab them pliars in the trunk? Hand me another Bud while
you are there......babe!
Canadian:
Get me the 7/16ths wrench from the trunk.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Johnson
"Walk about the near-side wing and retrieve the 7/16 spanner in the boot,
please". How do you say that in American, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese,
Chinese......etc...
"ve haf ways of making you get the wrench" German
"Please Mr. German, make them get the wrench, or I'll cut my ear off" Dutch
"Yo quiero el pinchy pliars Jose y un cervesa por favor" Spanish
"Ah sooo...please to hand me the wrench we copied from the British" Japanese
"&%$$#$%^ give me another 7/16th, the last one doesn't fit and the first
three broke" Chinese
Regards,
Robert B. Houston
74.5 MGBGT
73 MG Midget
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Skinners Union
carburetors in his vintage MG, highly functional yet pleasingly formed,
perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands,
the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and
adjusted as
described in chapter seven of the Haynes shop manual.
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