In Reply to: Funny Bali phrases posted by MarkS on Sunday, 8. June 2008 at 10:34 Bali Time:
Somewhere along Jln Kuta Pantai a driver I once had got excited as we drove along this street pointing "wipe here" !
It was a shop he seemed to be pointing at that I figure he wipes the glass fronts as an extra job. He is a hard worker security at night ( mostly sleeping ) :-)) and then driver by day and now a third job. Im impressed.
Then the Q's I asked 'how long you wipe there ?" Then ever so keen to learn more English I explain wipe work is called window cleaning.
"no" he sais "wipe" there. ###!!!*** The penny drops with my balinese friend in the back helping out.
His bl***dy "wiFe" works there. hahahah.
So the remainder of the journey was in the trying to perfect "P" to a "f" sound. Now Im no trained speech therapist but I recall something about getting your lips and mouth to move in the manner to make a sound.
Well the window was spat on in this attempt of which we ended up having a good laugh cos we had to use the term now the bl***dy window needs a "wiPe".