Language Barrier Hilarity

[Seraph]

I'm still in tears from this, literally. Just crying my eyes out from the cramp I've got in my ribs right now from laughing.

DD - Danish (?) dude. Sorry, I think he's Danish, I'm not too brushed up on my nordic languages. At all.

DD: Jeg ønsker, design af dig. Hvad er prisen?

DD: Pris for design på hjemmesiden?

Seraph: Hi, I'm sorry, I don't speak that language.

DD: Jeg ønsker, design af dig. Hvad er prisen?

Seraph: Really, I'm sorry, I only speak English.

DD: Pris for design på hjemmesiden?

DD: Jeg ønsker, design af dig. Hvad er prisen

DD: Jeg ønsker, design af dig. Hvad er prisen?

<Ok, we AINT GETTIN' NOWHAR HERE. Google Translate time!>

Seraph: Undskyld, jeg taler kun engelsk.

<looong time transpires, I think I shocked him.>

DD: Jeg finder oversætter. Hold på, og jeg kan tale engelsk



Eventually he comes back, also wielding Google Translate, and I explain my pricing to him. He then offers me 43 kroner for a custom design project, and asks my turnaround time.

Wait, was the kroner really doing that well? Quick Googling provides the answer that...

43 kroner = $7 USD

...That basically wouldn't even buy me lunch.

After giggling my head off, I explain nicely that I only accept USD, and that PayPal can handily convert things for him, and that I can even take credit cards. His response?



DD: i only have 43 kroner, no dollars, no paypal. someone else get design then. sorry bother you. goodbye.

DD: only have kroner, no paypal, nothing . if no kroner then sorry bother you.



Yes, that's right. He only had cash, and expected me to take it. I'm not sure how that'd even WORK, really. It'd probably cost more in shipping than the 43 kroner itself!

And he wants to run a website!....... HOW?!....beh!...<fzzzt>

<We're sorry, but the Seraph you have dialed is no longer in service. The brain has temporarily disconnected. Please hang up, and try your call again later. Goodbye.>

[cindybubbles]

I'm posting the Google Translate version of this:

DD: I want the design to you. What will it cost?

DD: Price for design on the site?

Seraph: Hi, I'm sorry, I do not speak att language.

DD: I want the design to you. What will it cost?

Seraph: Really, I'm sorry, I only speak English.

DD: Price for design on the site?

DD: I want the design to you. What is the price

DD: I want the design to you. What will it cost?

<Ok, we IS NOT gettin 'NOWHAR HERE. Google Translate hour!>

Seraph: Sorry, I only speak English.

<looong hours transpires, I think I shocked him.>

DD: I find a translator. Hold on and I can speak English

The funny thing is that, when I clicked the sound button to hear the speech, Google Translate took DD to mean "Doctor of Divinity"!

[Mikkel]

I apologise for my compatriot. The spelling is indeed Danish though the word-order and (oh, god) the punctuation makes me think the guy is semi-illiterate.
I ate lunch at a McD's yesterday. A chicken-salad did cost forty-something

[Jay 2K Winger]

...Seraph, did that crazy guy who wanted something crazy-complicated-and-expensive for $200 happen to move out of the country?

Regardless, this is just more proof that you are:

SERAPH, ENEMY OF NORMALCY. (DOOM!)

[Seraph]

The funny thing is that, when I clicked sound button to hear the speech, Google Translate took DD to mean "Doctor of Divinity"!

You never forget your first Doctor...

I apologise for my compatriot. The spelling is indeed Danish though the word-order and (oh, god) the punctuation makes me think the guy is semi-illiterate.
I ate lunch at a McD's yesterday. A chicken-salad did cost forty-something

Google was saying he was Danish, but it was spitting out replies that weren't worded/spelled remotely near, so I didn't know.

LMAO so even there he'd get a facepalm! Good to know, lol.

...Seraph, did that crazy guy who wanted something crazy-complicated-and-expensive for $200 happen to move out of the country?

...Possibly. <.<

[NorthernZel]

Like Mikkel, I'd like to apologize. Really he's an ijiit, and the punctiation made for a little while wonder if it was some Chinese/Indian scammer who had turned the wrong translation tool on and only realized it the fourth time you wrote that you couldn't understand him.

And anyhoo, if he really wanted a cheap web template, there'd be plenty to order online through .dk websites (though not for 43 DKK, LOL), so I wonder why he'd contact you.

[Zoom]

Google Translate took DD to mean "Doctor of Divinity"!

There has always been only ONE DD -- Daredevil.

[mhkohne]

Like Mikkel, I'd like to apologize. Really he's an ijiit, and the punctiation made for a little while wonder if it was some Chinese/Indian scammer who had turned the wrong translation tool on and only realized it the fourth time you wrote that you couldn't understand him.

And anyhoo, if he really wanted a cheap web template, there'd be plenty to order online through .dk websites (though not for 43 DKK, LOL), so I wonder why he'd contact you.

Because all the websites he could understand were out of his price range.

[MoonCat]

Well, at least you know it isn't only people here that don't understand what a decent website design costs.

[Bookshelf]

I speak Danish, but good GODS, that's one heckuva broken Danish... The grammar has more in common with English than with Danish. It's even too broken to be from a person merely illiterate in Danish...

Word-for-word translation that isn't through Google Translate:

DD: I want, design of you. What is the price?

DD: Price for design on the home page?

Seraph: Hi, I'm sorry, I don't speak that language.

DD: I want, design of you. What is the price?

Seraph: Really, I'm sorry, I only speak English.

DD: Price for design on the home page?

DD: I want, design of you. What is the price

DD: I want, design of you. What is the price?

<Ok, we AINT GETTIN' NOWHAR HERE. Google Translate time!>

Seraph: Sorry, I only speak English. (Note: Google is already more fluent in Danish than the illingual bloke)

<looong time transpires, I think I shocked him.>

DD: I find translator. Hold on, and I can talk english

Sooo, yeah. I'm definitely leaning towards the "Scammer hit the wrong translate button on Google", even though Google Translate usually does a better job of translating that this gooblygook... Unless it's one of those odd cases where it's been taken through one translator to convert it into one language, and THEN run through a second translator to try and convert it into Danish. "English as she is spoken" indeed.

Also, yeah, definitely a ridiculous offer. 43 kroner wouldn't even buy you a BigMac at a McDonalds.

[Docmayhem]

"English as she is spoken" indeed.

Idiotisms and proverbs?

[Fjummer]

He must have hit the wrong translation button. We often get scammers in Denmark trying with google translation. Very easy to tell and avoid. Danish is hard and the language rules are non exsisting.

[Victoria J]

There has always been only ONE DD -- Daredevil.

No no. There are normally 2 DDs. Breasts ! (Is it not a bra size in the US, it made the Daredevil film unnecessarily amusing to me when he made a DD symbol).

"English as she is spoken" indeed.

To craunch a marmoset ?

Victoria J.

[Seraph]

No no. There are normally 2 DDs. Breasts ! (Is it not a bra size in the US, it made the Daredevil film unnecessarily amusing to me when he made a DD symbol).

Yes it is, its the size where bras become uncute, and you grind your teeth in rage that the only colors available with that size and beyond are like...beige, black, and white.

[Kanalah]

I bought some cute DD's online from VS.

*hides*