Saturday, July 17, 2010

Translation Is No Small Feat

(Supermarket | Alabama, USA)

Me: “Hi, thank you for calling [supermarket]. How can I help you?”


Customer: “Hey, can I speak to someone in the ladies wear department?”


Me: “That’d be me. How can I help you?”


Customer: “I bought some scrubs at another store and I was wondering what the ‘S/CH’ on the tag means?”


Me: “It means it’s a small.”


Customer: “But what does the ‘CH’ mean?”


Me: “It’s the Spanish abbreviation for small.”


Customer: “But ‘CH’; isn’t that American?”


Me: “The letters C and H are used in a lot of different languages, including Spanish.”


Customer: “Oh, how strange!”

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