I am outta here.
Posts archive for: 16 January, 2009
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Broken English.
@ 2009-01-16 – 14:29:04
We all mangle our mother tongue at regular intervals during the day.
Because we are tired, we are thinking too far ahead of our mouth in order to get a concept across, or because we are a tad stupid.
I have heard two good examples today that I thought I’d share with you. (yeah, slow blog inspiration day, just suck it up)
First was here at Weird Inc.
I walked by a desk where two people where discussing one of our products. It (whatever it is) is being re-vamped and altered. Or some bollocks – anyway I heard this –
“If we make it just like the original but smaller, smaller in dimensions..”
Smaller in Dimensions!
What other way is there to make something smaller ya muppet!
Smaller in weight
Smaller in colour!
We are doomed.
But the person was just trying to convey something in the heat of a brain storming session so I can forgive them. (ooooh, get me!)
The second example is from someone who sat at the bar in Mollys this lunch time.
I could tell from the expression on the face of Jay the barman that he was having a little trouble getting his head around the friendly banter of this new female customer, so I turned off my I-Pod and had a crafy eavesdrop.
What was the first thing I heard?
She - “well I would just worry about where they came from”
To which Jay replied in his lazy Kiwi drawl:
“Well bacon or gammon steak, I don’t really care – it all tastes good”
“But I would worry about it, I mean where they born on a farm or in a barn or where they born in an abattoir?”
“……..I don’t think they would be born in an abattoir….” Said Jay, his eyes glazing over.
