The name of the citrus

12sep/101

The name of the citrus

It's fun to work in a workplace with guests and collegues from all over Europe. One of my first targets was to learn the six most important languages. I calculated that I can communicate with 95% of the guests in their motherlanguage. Ofcourse you don't learn only the standardphrases but with the influence of your collegues you learn also the language of the street -and the bed.

Today Italian guests at table 305. At a certain moment they point at a citrus and ask me:'Do you know how it's called in Italian?' "I don't know, I'll ask the kitchen." "No no, si chiama pompino, puoi anche dire pompa".

Mmm.. the guest is not ALWAYS right

Foto by Martino Franchi under CC2.0

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skippymom
september 13th, 2010 - 15:56

THAT is hysterical.

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