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OP Replying to my own post - sad hey!
The punch line of the above tale reminds me of an event during my recent trip to Mongolia.
Keen to try out one of the first three words I learnt, I started to thank the waitress in our hotel before retiring for the night. I looked her in the eye and said very carefully in my rehearsed Mongol - "Thankyou".
She seemed a little puzzled so I tried again - "Thankyou!".
This time my accompanying smile and small nod of the head did nothing to ease her look of bewilderment.
I took a deep breath, ran through it in my head again and went for the third effort just as our translator came back - having wondered where I'd got to.
"THANKYOU" I said again - at which the translator started to fall about the place laughing.
I'd just said - very carefully mind - "Gloves" three times!!
(FWIW - had said "Beer-lee" rather than "bayer-la")
"Gloves" is now standard around our work place when there seems nothing better to say.
stales
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