Why Europe Rocks: Reason #36
Smart Europeans
Here Jozef is explaining something about something to Bonnie out of a geography book before Exit club started last week.
REAL CONVERSATION
Pavel: Do you know how to say "kamzik" in English?
Leah: No.
Alca: It's a small deer, it doesn't have antlers like this [shows antlers on head] but like this [different antlers on head]. It lives in the mountains.
Leah: I'm from Iowa.
Jozef: Well, I'm from Czech and I know about tigers.
Pavel: Maybe you just call it "little deer."
Alca: [after looking in a dictionary] Here it is, It's "chamois," have you heard of chamois?
Leah: Ha ha ha! Uh, maybe that's British English*
Alca: [reading] "In America, chami." Have you heard of chami?
Leah: ...
*The phrase "maybe that's British English" works like a dream in almost all situations, fyi.
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posted by Leah at 6:23 PM
6 Comments:
Haha. That's a great conversation. And just so you know, a chamois is like a mountain goat. I, the used-to-be animal nerd, had a subscription to Zoobooks until I was 18 (slight exaggeration).
-Ryohazard
7:08 PM
Baby Ry Ry! I hope you're doing well; we miss you in these parts (where the chamois dwell).
9:25 PM
Hmmmm...I remember having conversations like that. Man I feel dumb over there sometimes!
12:19 AM
oh le-i, you make-a-me laugh! i LOVE that phrase too... gets me out of a lot of awkward situations :)
11:47 PM
Jozef´s reply is pretty funny, hezky odpálkoval :)
10:14 PM
to jo no :)
3:52 PM
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