Lady and gentlemens
So yesterday I went to an international trade fair launch at Promenade Hotel, KK. The trade fair itself will be held in September in Likas. I helped in the development of their website.
Anyway, I don’t know what’s my point in blogging about this but the speech by the organising chairman was funny. Not funny because he made it so. He was dead serious in delivering his speech as the Industrial Minister was among the audience.
What was so funny?
The Datuk addressed the audience as “Lady and gentlemenS”. Hehehehe. I quietly chuckled whenever he did that as my MD was seated next to me. The speaker then used that whenever he want to start a new point or a paragraph in the speech.
I was sure there were more than 1 lady in the room and I thought “gentlemen” was already plural? Hehehe. At least it was not as embarassing as the lady MC who pronounced unique as U-NEE-QUEUE 2 years ago (also during an international event launch).
I hope somebody train him before he addresses the actual international crowd later this year.
To be fair to him, he’s not the only one who has problems in pronouncing the correct English term. I know a few chinese who says “I donch know”.
Man - now I realise the event yesterday was so boring. So lady and gentlemens, you have any similar experiences as mine?
May 30th, 2007 at 9:55 am
hehe…launching of trade fair eh…haha mimang buring tu…unless ko bawa camera ko ambik2 gambar + ada banyak makanan free yang sadapp….baru la boring nda rasa…hahahaha
May 30th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I used “Ladies and Germs”..to break the ice..
but that’s an old one lah.
May 30th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
I’ve attended Agency briefs given by some of my clients and you should just hear how they butcher the English language, not saying that I’m pretty good at it but some of these people are of simply hilarious la. On top of that they proudly say they’re graduates from so and so universities … I seriously ‘donch know’ what is wrong with these people. LOL!
May 30th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Hahah! I always here a lot of people say that too! If they don’t have good grammar, at least have good pronunciation, right? And donch know is a common one too! But that U-NEE-QUE.. That’s seriously a first for me! keke!!
May 30th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
An ex-colleague loved to say ‘Thats mean’ all the time… I cringed every time I heard it!
May 30th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
he he. it’s been a while since i attended any sort of launching. hope you got some consolation from the food.
i am guessing you were forced to go (along with the government staff) to make up the numbers?
May 31st, 2007 at 2:26 am
retard - yeah… my boss’ excuse is “they might want to ask questions abt the website that i need you to answer”.. emm ok like what? how to include static pages inside asp files? sheesh.. im sure the hardest technical question these VIP can ask is “is this website accessible to people outside of sabah?”
June 1st, 2007 at 12:11 am
You might want to hope that he aint reading this ^^
June 1st, 2007 at 2:23 am
hehe. maybe your boss is more afraid if he gets asked *that* question and cannot answer.
oh, once i heard a speech made by a local trying to sound english, speaking bahasa. started off with “twain twain dane pwayne pwayne, izin cane saya ber char khap dalam baha sir english…”. my skin crawled. i guess some people need to spend just one afternoon overseas to suddenly forget their life long local accent.
June 7th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Well, back in my schooldays, we had this new English teacher (guru sandaran jer..) who repeatedly pronounced “queue” as “KWE WE WE” and “mosque” and “MOS KIEW”.
Bah! Cannot tahan!
June 7th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Oops. I meant “KWE WE” :mrgreen: