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Some People Have No Sense of Humor

by thunderbird
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A guy I know because he is on a quixotic quest to try to get people to join him in Amway started badgering me to teach him a few words of Mandarin. Finally, I taught him something, "Wo bi ni hao, wo bi ni ben." A few days after that, I received a phone call and heard his angry booming voice screaming stuff like, "You set me up! You think that's funny, humiliating me! I'm now the laughingstock in my workplace." It seems that he wanted to impress Chinese co-workers or something. I had no idea what he wanted to do with that. He's not willing to laugh it off like his co-workers and is actually threatening to sue me.
#learn mandarin #mandarin phrases #sense of humor
  • Profile picture of the author Roaddog
    Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

    A guy I know because he is on a quixotic quest to try to get people to join him in Amway started badgering me to teach him a few words of Mandarin. Finally, I taught him something, "Wo bi ni hao, wo bi ni ben." A few days after that, I received a phone call and heard his angry booming voice screaming stuff like, "You set me up! You think that's funny, humiliating me! I'm now the laughingstock in my workplace." It seems that he wanted to impress Chinese co-workers or something. I had no idea what he wanted to do with that. He's not willing to laugh it off like his co-workers and is actually threatening to sue me.

    So are you to keep me in suspense Tbird?

    Being Manchurian... I have no idea what that means

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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by Roaddog View Post

      So are you to keep me in suspense Tbird?

      Being Manchurian... I have no idea what that means

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      Whoops, forgot to say what it means. It is kind of senseless. It means, "I'm better than you. I'm stupider than you." I didn't imagine that guy would actually try to put those silly words to use.
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    Originally Posted by Greg Wildermuth View Post

    Thunderbird, hit me up if you ever need some horrendous Japanese cusswords that will get him punched.
    A Paraguayan friend of mine once went to a restaurant in New York to look up a relative, but the restaurant was huge with dozens of table attendants. So, he loudly swore and cussed in Guarani, one of the national languages of Paraguay. While others were shocked by what seemed to be a madman talking in tongues, one of them laughed at his vile language and said something equally shocking in return. And that was how he located his relative.
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    I attempted to use Google Translate's auto-detect language feature to translate that to English, but Google Translate thinks it's Italian.
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by mojojuju View Post

      I attempted to use Google Translate's auto-detect language feature to translate that to English, but Google Translate thinks it's Italian.
      Of course! Marco Polo introduced the Italian language and pasta to the Italians after he brought it back from his travels in China.
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      • Profile picture of the author Roaddog
        Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

        Of course! Marco Polo introduced the Italian language and pasta to the Italians after he brought it back from his travels in China.

        Ha The pasta thing is pretty much proven.

        The language thing ...not so much...Italian comes from ancient Irish, and in turn all the Latin languages.


        Next time you want to piss off an Italian, tell him that theory...

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  • Profile picture of the author Charlotte Jay
    This is hilarious in so many ways. It's like when people get Chinese or Japanese characters tattooed on their bodies, that make absolutely no sense or have a completely different meaning. (Actually I have a Japanese character tattooed on my back, that I hope means what I think it does-it was my first one at age 18 many moons ago!)

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    ^^^^^^^^^ Hours of amusement!
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