Saturday, December 02, 2006

Yet another name for the former native speaker

The latest in a series:

Yesterday we were in Carrefour (which, despite having a collection of kitchy Christmas decorations that rivals Wal-Mart's, still doesn't sell dirt cookies) when a cute little kid saw me, ran to his mother, and said, "英文人! 英文人!" (Roughly, "English language person.") His mom wasn't so cute, though: "Bah! Humbug!" she spat. "What's a 英文人? He's a 外國人!"* Way to stifle your kid's language play, Mom...

*OK, so she said it all in Chinese. Without the "Bah! Humbug!" part. Anyway...

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