Japanese tourists overnight 'accidentally' in West Bank
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Tel Aviv - Around 15 Japanese tourists involuntarily spent the night in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank because they were unable to pronounce the letter "L", the Israeli daily Maariv reported Monday. The tour group were on an excursion originally set to take them to Afula in northern Israel. But when they were buying tickets at the main bus station in Jerusalem, they pronounced the letter "L" like the letter "R", and were accidentally given tickets for the Ofra settlement in the northern West Bank. When they arrived later that evening at the high-security entrance to the settlement, the puzzled guard tried to explain that there was no "nearby hotel" in the crisis-torn region. The tourists then had to stay in the settlement, which is a radical stronghold in the Palestinian territories. After long explanations and a day later, they eventually took a bus to their original destination.
Copyright DPA
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an attempt to make fun of Japanese? yes.
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Raoul ,
Mon, 21 May 2007 17:59:41 GMT
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Is this an attempt to make fun of Japanese?
yes. what is your problem about that ? you seem to be one of those racists hiding behind a curtain veil of anti-racism, like those feminists and other hysteric mobs.
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common sense
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The Trials/Tribulations of Teaching English in Japan ,
Thu, 17 May 2007 06:53:05 GMT
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How about some common sense on the part of the Japanese tourguide, if their pronunciation was so bad they should have written the name down or pointed on a map.
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Rofr
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George ,
Tue, 15 May 2007 08:24:31 GMT
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haha. They were only rosto for a rittiru bitto, so no harmu no faeru. I'm printing this out for my students to show them how important pronunciation is.
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poor journarism
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Taro Japanese ,
Tue, 15 May 2007 00:40:47 GMT
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Is this an attempt to make fun of Japanese? Whether one is Japanese or not has no bearing on ranguage proficiency. Undoubtedry, it is not onry the Japanese who have difficurty in Engrish pronunciation, and thus singring out Japanese tourists in this way is racist and discriminatory. Rather than making fun of tourists in a potentiarry dangerous situation, why don't you point out the inabirity of bus operators to cater for their crients and keep them out of harms way? Where is their sense of responsibirity? Where is your sense of journaristic objectivity??
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