Don't mess with Ireland girls

savage170

I was in a pub last Saturday night, and drank a few, and noticed two very
large women by the bar. They both had pretty strong accents, so I asked,
"Hey, are you two ladies from Ireland?"
One of them chirped saying, "It's WALES, you idiot!"
So, I immediately apologized and said, "I'm sorry. Are you two whales
from
Ireland?"
That's pretty much the last thing I remember...

Mk 19

[:D]

airbornerizz

Haha!! I met a brit from Wales, his accent was way different from the other British... lol very funny joke

hdcolt51

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gjshaw

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Spider7115

True story:

When I worked for Chrysler, I had to go to Detroit for a meeting. There was a large girl from the Indiana office in attendance.

A guy from another office came into the meeting room, looked at her and said "Whale, how are you doin' this morning?". I saw her start to cry and asked her what was wrong. "Why did he call me a whale?" she sobbed.

I laughed and said "He didn't call you a whale! He's from the Charleston, SC office. He was saying WELL!" [:D]

320090T

Well, being a whale from Indiana, he's lucky she didn't jump up and crush him!

fideau

I have traced one side of my family back to Wales. They came here in the mid 1600s. Being interested I have tried to learn something about Wales. I have learned that the written language is impossible to understand, and words impossible to pronounce. Unless you are born there it seems impossible to ever pick it up.
For example, one born in 1644 in Kiltalgarth, parish Llanvawr, Merionethshire, Wales, and that's the easy ones.

montanajoe

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Don McManus

True story.

New Asian neighbor moved in and I went to introduce myself.

Extended my hand and said 'Don McManus'.

He extended his hand and said 'Frank Lu'

I said, 'You're welcome, and your name is....?'

Luckily his English was insuffient for him to understand fully...

fideau

Friend of mine named O'Neal went into a new dry cleaners run by some oriental folks, gave his name and was asked "how to spell name". He said "O, apostrophe, Neal".
"How you spell apostrophe, please?" was asked.[:D]

machine gun moran

I met a British couple who were touring the U.S. by car. They had a third party with them, who was also touring the U.S., who they said they had 'adopted' because he had language difficulties. This other guy was an Aussie, and he was from a part of Australia that spoke a regional dialect that couldn't be understood by Americans. But the Brits could understand him.

On the BBC WW2 website, there was a story that when the Germans captured UK prisoners, they would put some British prisoners in with the Scots. The Germans who spoke English could understand the Brits, but not the Scots. But because the Brits could, they would interpret.

I think there are 43 distinct regional dialects that linguists have identified in the U.S.

Oddly, even crows have regional dialects that border on different languages altogether (yes, crows voice-communicate).

cce1302

quote:Originally posted by Spider7115
True story:

When I worked for Chrysler, I had to go to Detroit for a meeting. There was a large girl from the Indiana office in attendance.

A guy from another office came into the meeting room, looked at her and said "Whale, how are you doin' this morning?". I saw her start to cry and asked her what was wrong. "Why did he call me a whale?" she sobbed.

I laughed and said "He didn't call you a whale! He's from the Charleston, SC office. He was saying WELL!" [:D]


Not large, just "cornfed."