lost in translation

team47b
team47b Posts: 6,425
edited July 2012 in The cake stop
I emailed a friend who has just started a new job as a lifeguard (an idea for Willhub!) to ask how it was going, he replied in English...


"Its going on fine! Havent saved any one yet."


:shock:
my isetta is a 300cc bike

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  • ShutUpLegs
    ShutUpLegs Posts: 3,522
    Do they still get payed :?:
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    haha when i was in portugal we kept using 'obrigada' - and only the last day did our nice host say - I didnt have the nerver to tell you but you're using the feminine version....as if you were a big girl. :D
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    team47b wrote:
    I emailed a friend who has just started a new job as a lifeguard (an idea for Willhub!) to ask how it was going, he replied in English...


    "Its going on fine! Havent saved any one yet."


    :shock:


    unlike this guy.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18715684
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown

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