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From: decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Cute foreigners
Message-ID: <689@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 00:04:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  7 00:04:09 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Oct-83 07:18:55 EDT
Organization: CWRU Computer Engr. Cleveland, Ohio
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I just remembered a series of SCTV episodes of "English for Beginners"
in which a eager little woman of some kind of Europeanish foreign origin
tries so hard to understand and be a good student that it invariably
drives her teacher up a wall.  Sample "dialogue":

	T: Hello.
	S: Hewwo.
	T: How are you today?
	S: Homma oota kay!
	T[commending S]: Very good.
	S: Wenny goom.
	T: Can you direct me to the hotel?
	S: Kaa hoo drekk ma hotaa!
	T: Can you di rect me to the ho tel?
	S: Kaa hoo dr ekk ma ho taa!
	T[getting angry, standing]: CAN YOU DI RECT ME TO THE HO TEL!
	S[standing]: Kaa hoo dr ekk ma ho taa!
	T[screaming]: Sit down!
	S[remaining standing, ecstatic]: Seeya dunn!
	T: No no no!
	S: Nuh nuh nuh!
	T: You don't have to say that!
	S: Yoodun fsah yaa!

I guess you had to be there.  What a riot!

			Dave Decot
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