It's funny to meeeee

[brown_betty]

I went to a great deal of trouble to produce a snippet which may only be funny to me. I've attempted to make it accessible by footnoting it. A voiceposting of this story can be found here.

Comments

[marici]

If Tim would be my French tutor, I'd help him with his Japanese...

[brown_betty]

Betcha Tim has an itty bit of fanboy-Japanese, but knows how geeky it is and conceals it.

[elynross]

Very clever and funny! Man, I have totally forgotten my idiomatic French...

[brown_betty]

I have about enough French to read recipes. Multilingual did the heavy lifting on this one. Glad you liked it.!

[ratcreature]

This was fun. Yay for linguistic preparedness! :)

[brown_betty]

I find the loony phrases are easier to remember than the useful ones. I can say, "my foot is stuck," in Lithuanian.

[chalcopyrite]

::cracks UP:: Oh brilliant. Le mutant armé jusqu'aux dents was the final giggling straw. Gee, I should have had the foresight to practice handy phrases like this!

[brown_betty]

Heh. The problem is, phrasebooks so rarely cover the situations you find yourself in, you know?

[hjcallipygian]

Heeeeeeeeee!

You are so wonderfully twisted and stuff.

[brown_betty]

It's not me, it's Tim!

[hjcallipygian]

Awww. Does little Tim live in your head and not stop talking?

You still rock. =)