Thursday, December 06, 2007

Welcome to Our World

Since we are environmentally friendly, we car-pool to and from school with a co-worker. This week, it was said co-worker's (Mary Ann aka Mrs. Robinson) turn to drive. On our way to school today her car was acting funny, and started to smell very bad. After stopping to pick up breakfast, the car wouldn't start again. Thankfully, our school is well-known at the breakfast shop and one of the workers drove us down the hill to work. Geoff was in contact throughout the day about the status of the car, how much it will cost, and when it will be fixed. After a few phone calls, leaving both Mary Ann and Geoff unsure of exactly what was happening, here is a text the breakfast shop worker, Vicky, sent. This is to tell us what the problem is, etc. You try and figure it out, cause we are still baffled... Obviously the language barrier is a daily issue, but sometimes it's worth it to share.

"The car problem is water tank have ink cause and take the trouble of hitting. Repair car personnel say surface repair about 4000 yuan by issue. Have a question to pay extra money to disassemble department to hit to take."

2 Comments:

At 4:58 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

Love it. You have to check out this post on Language Log:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005195.html

Sorry I haven't written you guys. Will do so very soon and good to hear you're doing well.

Ted

 
At 4:08 a.m., Blogger Madiegirl said...

LOL, and THAT is actually what "car talk" sounds like to me anyway !!!

Merry Christmas !

 

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