When Geography Goes Bad
May. 25th, 2006 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaosvizier(from a phone conversation, earlier...)
ME: Yes, you can get the flight tracking information from Newark Airport's website. If you know the flight number or the point of departure, they can tell you the flight status.
THEM: Oh, that's good to know.
ME: When do they get here?
THEM: 9:10 tonight.
ME: Hmm. Ok, five hour time difference from-
THEM: No, six hours. They're coming from the Netherlands.
ME: Ah, where from?
THEM: Shithole.
ME: *much longer pause* ummmmm... whah?
THEM: That's what it says.
ME: I... whah?
THEM: It's here. S-C-H-I-T-H-O-L.
ME: ...okay then.
MY BRAIN: Those wacky Dutch.
(much later)
ME: OOOHHHH, SCHIPHOL. WITH A P. JESUS CHRIST.
ME: Yes, you can get the flight tracking information from Newark Airport's website. If you know the flight number or the point of departure, they can tell you the flight status.
THEM: Oh, that's good to know.
ME: When do they get here?
THEM: 9:10 tonight.
ME: Hmm. Ok, five hour time difference from-
THEM: No, six hours. They're coming from the Netherlands.
ME: Ah, where from?
THEM: Shithole.
ME: *much longer pause* ummmmm... whah?
THEM: That's what it says.
ME: I... whah?
THEM: It's here. S-C-H-I-T-H-O-L.
ME: ...okay then.
MY BRAIN: Those wacky Dutch.
(much later)
ME: OOOHHHH, SCHIPHOL. WITH A P. JESUS CHRIST.
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Date: 2006-06-02 02:35 pm (UTC)Plus, one of my linguistics professors always used 's-Graevenhage as an example of... whatever he wanted to examplify. It drove us mad, but eventually we all learned how to properly pronounce it. Or at least mimic him pronouncing it.