This is a hoot.... sad, because it is TRUE..... but a hoot!!!! By the time you read through this YOU WILL UNDERSTAND "TENJOOBERRYMUDS"...
In order to continue getting-by in America (our home land), we all need to learn the NEW English language! Practice by reading the following conversation until you are able to understand the term "TENJOOBERRYMUDS".
With a little patience, you'll be able to fit right in.Now, here goes...The following is a telephone exchange between maybe you as a hotel guest and call room-service somewhere in the good old U S A today.....
Room Service: "Morrin. Roon sirbees."
Guest: "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."
Room Service: " Rye . Roon sirbees...morrin! Joowish to oddor sunteen???"
Guest: "Uh..... Yes, I'd like to order bacon and eggs."
Room Service: "Ow July den?"
Guest: ".....What??"
Room Service: "Ow July den?!?... pryed, boyud, poochd?"
Guest: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry.. scrambled, please."
Room Service: "Ow July dee baykem? Crease?"
Guest: "Crisp will be fine."Room Service: "Hokay. An Sahn toes?"
Guest: "What?"
Room Service: "An toes. July Sahn toes?"
Guest: "I.. don't think so."
RoomService: "No? Judo wan sahn toes???"
Guest: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo wan sahn toes' means."
RoomService: "Toes! Toes!...Why Joo don Juan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?"
Guest: "Oh, English muffin!!! I've got it! You were saying 'toast'... Fine...Yes, an English muffin will be fine."
RoomService: "We bodder?"
Guest: "No, just put the bodder on the side."
RoomService: "Wad?!?"
Guest: "I mean butter... just put the butter on the side."
RoomService: "Copy?"
Guest: "Excuse me?"
RoomService: "Copy...tea..meel?"
Guest: "Yes. Coffee, please... and that's everything."
RoomService: "One Minnie. Scramah egg, crease baykem, Anglish moppin, we bodder on sigh and copy ... rye??"
Guest: "Whatever you say."
RoomService: "Tenjooberrymuds."
Guest: "You're welcome"
Remember I said "By the time you read through this YOU WILL UNDERSTAND 'TENJOOBERRYMUDS' ".....and you do, don't you!
As writers, we need to draw from our experiences and find ways to infuse who we are into the stories we tell. Julia Cameron, the author of the Artist's Way, states: "We must write from love and we must choose those to read us who read from love: the love of words. The love of naming our experience must finally be the guiding force in what we put on the page."
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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Heheh! I liked that, but I figured out tenjooberrymuds before I read the story...hehehe!
Been there! HAHA.
Been there too... many times with employees.
It is amazing how many times my employees want to "AXE" me a question. Not too keen on employees axing me - they aren't the sharpest tools at Harbor Freight.
And whatever happened to the King's English? We have a bunch of inarticulate, gum-slapping, toothless wonders teaching language arts! I need an Ibuprofin!
Sloppy speech abounds. Utah county-ites have created their own brand of "what's-that-you-say?"-pronunciation: Ah-doan-fill-good. How-jew-fill-bout-thaa? You-gunna-pill-it? Get-rill! Wassa-dill-wi-thaa? Doan-fergitta-sill-it.
...And those are the educated ones.... LOL
What's really [rilly] sad is, the longer we live here, the more we sound just like everybody else!
i have to concentrate really hard to make sure that I am speaking clearly - i hear poor grammar and language skills all day!!!!!!!
Drives me nuts.
Sometimes I catch myself sounding like an idiot.
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