Black professor: Actually, it wasn’t neither… Excuse me, I had an Ebonics moment. Please forgive me.
Millsaps College
Jackson, Mississippi
Archive for the ‘Language barrier’ Category
Are They Applying Lip Gloss Over There?
20-ish European guy: So, do you like Angela*?
20-ish Asian guy: We’re pretty good friends, yeah. But what do you mean ‘like’ her?
20-ish European guy: You know — like-like her.
20-ish Asian guy: Oh, no, no, no, no, no! We’re just really good friends. I never really thought of her that way. Why? Do you like-like her?
20-ish European guy: I dunno. I think I like-like her, but I thought you like-liked her. [They walk away, still talking.]Woman: Is it just me or did those foreign guys sound like 12-year-old American girls, but, y’know, with funny accents?
Charity pancake breakfast
Hope, Alaska
Overheard by: I’d say closer to 10
She’s Canadian.
Hipster girl: Oh, look, there’s a movie theata here too!
Hipster guy: Movie “theata”? Wow, you do have an accent… but your sister, she’s really got an accent!
Hipster girl: Actually, she has a speech impediment.
Boston, Massachusetts
You Mean, Like, Jersey Shore?
Marine with no game to clearly uninterested sales clerk: And we marines say “semper fi” to each other, do you know what that means?
Sales girl: Yeah, it…
Marine, interrupting: It means “always faithful.” It’s like Russian or some shit… No. Maybe Italian… Yeah, it’s Italian.
Mall
Birmingham, Alabama
At Least She Correctly Identified Them As Birds.
High school girl, looking at seagulls feeding: That ain’t crows, them are ducks!
http://talovich.blogspot.com
Overheard by: Yugan
Like Having Grandma Sit on Your Face
Hostess describing rose and black lady tea combo: Smells like rose, tastes like lady.
Beijing
China
So It’s Likely He’s Very Drunk.
Little girl: He’s drunk, I swear!
Teenage sister: He’s not drunk, he’s a foreigner.
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Overheard by: Julia
A New Grammar Book by Tyra Banks
Drunk girl in bar: Dammit, bitch! Talk legible!
Memphis, Tennessee
Overheard by: James
Well It Works in Her Favor!
Girl: I’m hanging out with Claire today, that’s why I can’t stay later.
Guy: Is Claire the one with the awesome accent?
Girl: She has a speech impediment.
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: Leonard
Leave It to the Ivy Leaguers to Really Get to the Crux of an Issue
Frat boy: That’s all I want, a girl from, like, some poor village in southern Italy, doesn’t speak a fuckin’ *word* of English, and I can bring her home, and she can lie in my bed all day, and fuck me, and make me gnocci.
Plain blonde girl: Do you really like gnocci?
Yale Berkeley College Dining Hall
Cambridge, Massachusetts
