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| Being American by Quétinbec 03/17/2009, 6:21pm PDT | ||||
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Fussbett wrote:Quétinbec wrote: Man, I had this asshole Korean student who'd spent three months working in a US McDonalds who'd 'correct' me on my pronunciation in class so often that if students couldn't understand something I said, they'd turn to him for an explanation. He stopped me once and was like: "Do you mean 'gay-ass'?" "Gas?" "It's pronounced 'gay-ass' in the US." "Yeah, but the rest of the world calls it petrol. Petrol and natural 'gay-ass' are different things, and if you call them both gas like an American, you'll get confused when you have a conversation about energy. [explains difference between petrol and natural gas]" "How do you pronounce it?" "How do I pronounce gay-ass?" "Yes." "Gas" *Laughter* "fhuheiuhrueihfuh 'New Zealand' ihehfeihghroghoighiegh 'New Zealand' ihgihgihighgihghg 'US' hgoehoehoehrgoehg 'GAS'" *Laughter* I had a 9 year old student I taught privately who assumed I was American becaues I was white. I'd play along with it because it's so fucking hard to have an hour long conversation with a 9 year old in broken English so you thrash to death whatever they show the slightest interest in. He kept asking me about my life in the US and I felt awful because I thought I knew more about the US then I do and I ended up filling his head with shit in order to drag the classes out." "Do you have bullet trains in the US?" "Yes." "Are they faster than than the KTX?" "Yes." "Are they faster than a plane?" "It depends on how far you need to go. Sometimes they are faster." "Have you been on one?" "Yes. I travel to my family in New York every month" ETC ETC ETC After a few months I'd created this big bullshit story about myself that I couldn't remember the details of and he'd told his mum all this shit which scared me because I thought she'd tell my boss who'd think I was pretending to be an American to get more money out of them when really I was only doing it for retarded reasons. Fortunately, after a month he got bored of talking to me and we spent our time playing hangman and drawing pictures of monsters. |
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