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Have You Ever Travelled Anywhere & Was "Lost" In Language Translation? by optimusprime2(m): 3:38pm On Feb 07, 2013
My most Hilarious experience was @ Ihiala LGA, Anambra state in Nigeria. I was newly posted there during my NYSC service year.
Being raised up North, The whole Igbo Tradition/Culture was new to me & I did'nt understand one punctuation of Igbo not to talk of a word lol.
Well on this day, I went shopping for food Items(me and my insatiable greed for pancakes)@ the market & I needed directions to where I could get "Flour"(my warped british accent didnt help issues)- after describing, frantically demonstrating, gesticulating desperately, sumersaulting, hopping and literally turning myself into a clown@ the market place(pheeew, the locals found me entertaining though), it took almost a century for them to figure out what I meant(dont blame me, the translation for flour was'nt on the bloody handbook)...
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Re: Have You Ever Travelled Anywhere & Was "Lost" In Language Translation? by DBestDoc(f): 1:59am On Feb 08, 2013
Lol
mine was pathetic. wasnt a pleasant experience at all.
was in China, nobody understood English.coupled with the stares i got from every 。。。Tom and Harry cos i was the only dark skinned person in a crowded place. i actually cried out of frustration.
at the end of the day sha, God sent me a dude that could speak little English.that was after i was i ripped of some cash by a Chinese slowpoke cos i didnt really know the exchange rate.
the cash sounded small to me but when i later coverted,i discovered i had lost thousands of naira for something that shouldnt cost me up to one hundred naira.
the experience was an eye opener sha
Re: Have You Ever Travelled Anywhere & Was "Lost" In Language Translation? by optimusprime2(m): 4:11am On Feb 08, 2013
D_BestDoc: Lol
mine was pathetic. wasnt a pleasant experience at all.
was in China, nobody understood English.coupled with the stares i got from every 。。。Tom and Harry cos i was the only dark skinned person in a crowded place. i actually cried out of frustration.
at the end of the day sha, God sent me a dude that could speak little English.that was after i was i ripped of some cash by a Chinese slowpoke cos i didnt really know the exchange rate.
the cash sounded small to me but when i later coverted,i discovered i had lost thousands of naira for something that shouldnt cost me up to one hundred naira.
the experience was an eye opener sha
Eiyaaaaah sorry about the loss... Hahahahahahaha- but I can imagine the "Alien in China" feel.

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