Saturday, March 18, 2006

Language barriers and slogans.....

A Haitian girl came into the store the other day....Haitian people have some really strong accents and they pronounce the "r" as if it follows a "w"...and sometimes, they are hard to understand. so here's the conversation.
girl: "do you 'ave wedbool?"
me: "i'm sorry, do we have who?"
girl (a little bit louder): "wreeeedbool?"
me: "excuse me?"
girl: "wedboool give u wings!" (while doing a flying motion)
me (in the middle of a whole bunch of laughing): "oh, Red Bull! yeah, look on door 2. Red Bull gives you wings!"

thumbs up to the makers of Red Bull for making a slogan that extends beyond language barriers!
South Florida thanks you!

1 comment:

Nandi23 said...

talk about a disease that crosses the language barrier
remember med-bac class

strong hatian accent booming across class :'cwaab is pubic louse!'