The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service, at a hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review.

Ried aut laud !!!

Room Service (RS): "Morny. Ruin sorbees."

Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."

RS: "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"

G: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs."

RS: "Ouw July den?"

G: "What??"

RS: "Ouw July den?...pryd, boyd, poochd?"

G : "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."

RS: "Ouw July dee baychem? Crease?"

G: "Crisp will be fine."

RS : "Hokay. An Sahn toes?"

G: "What?"

RS:"An toes. July Sahn toes?"

G: "I don't think so."

RS: "No? Judo sahn toes??"

G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo sahn toes' means."

RS: "Toes! toes!...Why djew Don Juan toes? Ouw bow Anglish moppin we boter?"

G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."

RS: "We boter?"

G: "No...just put the boter on the side."

RS: "Wad?"

G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."

RS: "Copy?"

G: "Sorry?"

RS: "Copy...tea...mill?"

G: "Yes. Coffee, please, and that's all."

RS: "One Minnie. Scram egg, crease baychem, Anglish moppin we boter on sigh and copy....rye??"

G: "Whatever you say."

RS: "Tendjewberrymud."

G : "You're very welcome."

doch trotz aller Widrigkeiten in der Dritten Welt bitte nicht zum Kolonialherren werden...

Janchik