[BITList] ENGLISH AS SHE IS NOT BEING SPOKE

[franka]

Hugh
When I joined BI I was told that it was up to me to speak to the crew in 
their language if I wanted them to do something and to do it myself if 
unable to do this ,I found that one acquired a working knowledge of Jass 
bat quite rapidly not that anyone could understand any thing I said 
because of my southern accent and the fact that most of the technical 
terms had been taught to them by Scots engineers
frank

On 7/28/2011 9:34 PM, HUGH wrote:
> John,
> Also, when dealing with kind of Spanish looking foreigners, adding "o" 
> to the ends of words works a trick, eg, "Give-0 me-0 two-O beer-O."  
> An English colleague in Odense said to Henning Jensen (flawless 
> English), "me English, you foreign." He wasn't being facetious. 
>  Henning brought his complaint to me - "That ^%$& talks to me as if 
> I'm a Red Indian."  His Geordie compatriots said, "He's from Barrow, 
> so don't for God's sake associate him with us."
> Hugh.
>
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