2004-05-16

China Charm (3)

  总算说到周五的笑话上来了,这是开始想到这个题目的起因。
  第三个是Bernd,素未谋面,因为工作上的事情,找德国的一个同事,此人休假,说有急事找这个Bernd。
  Bernd回信说非常非常忙,这个问题会尽量及早解决。我说‘Thank you for the effort. Please update me the status when it is available’
  这些都非常正式,接着这个Bernd回了段中文:
  ‘是, 我将通知您’
  啊呀,我这个感觉好啊。瞧瞧,这个‘是’,这个‘您’,啧啧啧,无比舒畅。寻思他用的是哪个翻译工具,多半是德译汉,Sie翻过来的,否则怎么有‘您’呢。
  我说:‘好,好极了。’
  接下来的一句生硬中文露了底‘谢谢,并且由于互联网’。马上嘲笑他是用的auto translation。
  这个Bernd为不通的中文道了歉,但还是辩解,七年前他学过中文,然而最后没成行,就都忘了。
  完了,他表达了对中华文化的崇敬:
  But I have read the whole amazing history of china and some books about Feng Shui. Thousand years ago, when we in Europe were climbing on the trees China had a highly developed culture…
  我简直要背过气去:
  I can’t help laughing when think of you climbing on the trees and working hard to solve the R/3 problems… very vivid picture.
  Bernd还说:
  but in the karaoke bar I have won a fun contest with a Chinese song (everybody thought it was Chinese but in fact I didn’t know what I have sung). The song is called “Monica” and written in Chinese letters.
  我问:
  Does that song has an English line: ‘Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Monica-ah-ah-ah’?
  It is a Cantonese song. (说了一通张国荣的简介八卦)So you are on very high level. I can't speak Cantonese, yet.
  
  Exactly !!!! This is the song.
  In this contest everybody on stage had to draw a paper out of a box where the number of the song was written. And there were 49 english and german songs and one Chinese song. And I had drawn the only Chinese song in the box…and now I hear it is even Cantonese, wow.
  
  So coooool to win a contest with a Cantonese song. Lucky draw. Can’t imagine how you succeed in that.
  
  You can be happy that you have not see and hear the performance. Otherwise the picture of the climbing developer in the trees would be enriched with some strange sounds... and then you may lose the respect for the honourable developer ;-)
  
  在彻底岔气之前,我有礼貌地回答:
  I always respect unique person, such as developer, with unique techniques: climbing trees, singing Cantonese song, and even knowing Feng Shui...
  
  

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