Interesting people in the world Part.1
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1,
Our roommate in Skopje (45,
ex-high school teacher of physics, never married) from Japan (for 3 days)
Though he said he has lived in Moscow as a student till the end of last
June, he didn't know almost anything about the war in Yugoslavia. (Even though
We've met lots of people who call it as 'war in Kosovo' and we understand their
feeling well, the war in our sense is definitely 'war in Yugoslavia') This
morning he noticed the wallpaper on our PC (the first sunrise, same as the one
you've seen) and asked,
"Is it in Skopje?"
MW: Yes, it is. (since he is
older than we are, we use polite form though the ACTUAL ruler of the room was
us)
this is the FIRST sunrise (=in Japanese, this
expression directly implies the particular morning of
Jan.1)
"Oh, well,
great!!!
.
.
Did you take it YESTERDAY???"
NB.
This conversation was on the 15th of January
2, My friend's sister
when she got angry with her big brother
"Could you tell me how to say 'I
hate you' in Japanese?"
MW: Aishiteru (NB. It means 'I love you')
Of
course, she kicked her brother with saying "I love you!" in Japanese
3,
Kosovo Albanian Children
"Kinez!! (Chinese)"
MW: Un jam
Japonja! (We are Japanese!!!)
"Japonja, Kinez!!!"
4,Lots of
Kosovo Albanian children and
youth (this is typical for those who were not in the actual
battlefield)
Child#1: Hello how are you?" (NB. No comma between 'hello' and 'how')
Child#2: What's your name?
MW: Camille, Shou (NB. If they don't tell their name
first, we tend not to tell the truth)
Child#3: What's your name?
MW:
Camille, Shou
Child#4: What's your name?
(We must omit the remaining repetition
of the same dialogue until Child#9
please wait 45 seconds)
..45 sec. later
#5(actually number is not important, but
): Where are you from?
K: Japan
#4: DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?
(Then ended up with
our dialogue like "We're
speaking ENGLISH from the beginning, CAN (We dare to use 'can') you understand?")
Similar pattern happened once in Kosovo;
Albanian guy:
*&&^%$#^&&&*%
MW: *&^&%&&$#%^
Another
Albanian guy: Parlez-vous Francais? (Do you speak French?)
MW: Oui. Ou sont
les toilettes? (Where is WC?)
Then the guy sank into silence and
we had to
learn Albanian
(cf. You may say "Kuu eeshte vetse?")