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From: falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Japanese L/Rs
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Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 15:13:44 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 15 15:13:44 1986
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True story:

My father was in business for himself once and got a letter from japan from
somebody who wanted to make some sort of deal.  Apparently whoever wrote the
letter worked from a japanese-to-american phrase book or something that used
some sort of phonetics.  The syntax of the letter was japanese, but best of
all, you had to pretend you had a japanese accent and read it out loud in
order to understand it.  I forget the details, but for example, they wanted
my father to contact their "royers" (try it out loud).

joke:

   A bunch of fairly obnoxious business-people used to go to this one chinese
restraunt and have the waiter read them the specials of the day.  When the
waiter got to "chicken flied lice", they would break into hystericks at his
accent.  Needless to say this irritated the shit out of him.
   So, this waiter went and got a speech therapist and spent a whole week
practicing his 'r's until he got it perfect.
   The next time the obnoxious ones showed up, he was ready for them.  When
they asked him the special of the day.  He said slowly and carefuly:
"chicked fried rice, you plicks".

	-ed falk, sun microsystems