Tim Retout dijo [Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:36:39PM +0100]: > > Until now, I have found three of them: "say what?", "what's that?" and > > "say it again", the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me > > started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. > > "Say what?" definitely sounds US English. I wouldn't use the other two > either. > > Your basic four UK responses are as follows, in descending order of > politeness: > > "Pardon?", "Sorry?", "Come again?", "What?". > > For bonus points, elaborate: > > "I beg your pardon, what did you say?" > "I'm terribly sorry, come again?" > > If all else fails, add more self-deprecation and explanation: > > "I'm afraid I didn't quite hear, would you mind awfully repeating that > please?" > > This actually happened to me in New York with someone asking for > money. It seemed somewhat unfair not to give it to them at that point, > after making them repeat themselves so many times.
Of course, being the minimum wage so crazily high in that so-called first-world, if you didn't give him the requested money, you would be facing the Homeless Union. Well played. At least you made him lose some time with you brit. _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
