Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Sometimes I truly love the language barrier...

A conversation between my friend (네 친구), a --Korean born-- Korean language tutor and a German English teacher (선생님), a conversation that can happen few other places than Korea.

네 친구: I took German classes when I was in high school...there was this phrase (whispers something into the English teacher's ear)

(Short Pause.)

선생님: ...was that English or German?

(VERY brief contemplation.)

네 친구: I don't know.

...the phrase, by the way, was "God is dead," which my other friend, also an English teacher, inferred from his knowledge of German philosophy.

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