I believe the joke is that, if you've married someone whose family speaks another language, they tend to use the same method of "teaching" you their language as the robot: say the same thing over and over again, loudly, in the hopes you somehow figure it out just from that. Kinda like when people try yelling at a deaf person to get them to understand. :P
I don't have any foreign speaking in-laws, but that's my experience with many native speakers: if I don't understand them the first time, they tend to repeat what they said only louder and faster.
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ReplyDeleteI'm really fond of itchy feet comics but i fail to understand the end of today's. Could you explain it to me?
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I believe the joke is that, if you've married someone whose family speaks another language, they tend to use the same method of "teaching" you their language as the robot: say the same thing over and over again, loudly, in the hopes you somehow figure it out just from that. Kinda like when people try yelling at a deaf person to get them to understand. :P
DeleteI don't have any foreign speaking in-laws, but that's my experience with many native speakers: if I don't understand them the first time, they tend to repeat what they said only louder and faster.
DeleteYeah basically Andrew's got it ;)
DeleteThanks for the explanations :) I'll be experienced whenever it happens to me !
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Do I win?... I'll get my coat.
I throw you out of the boat ;)
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