TENDJEWBERRYMUD

Amazingly, you will understand the word “tendjewberrymud” by the end of the conversation. Read aloud for best results. The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service at a hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review…

Room Service (RS): “Morny. Ruin sorbees”

Guest (G): “Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service”

RS: “Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen?”

G: “Uh..yes..I’d like some bacon and eggs”

RS: “Ow July den?”

G: “What?”

RS: “Ow July den?…pry, boy, pooch?”

G: “Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please.”

RS: “Ow July dee bayhcem…crease?”

G: “Crisp will be fine.”

RS: “Hokay. An San tos?”

G: “What?”

RS: “San tos. July San tos?”

G: “I don’t think so”

RS: “No? Judo one toes?”

G: “I feel really bad about this, but I don’t know what ‘judo one toes’ means.”

RS: “Toes! toes!…why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we other?”

G: “English muffin!! I’ve got it! You were saying ‘Toast.’ fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine.”

RS: “We bother?”

G: “No..just put the bother on the side.”

RS: “Wad?”

G: “I mean butter…just put it on the side.”

RS: “Copy?”

G: “Sorry?”

RS: “Copy…tea…mill?”

G: “Yes. Coffee please, and that’s all.”

RS: “One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy….rye?”

G: “Whatever you say”

RS: “Tendjewberrymud”

G: “You’re welcome”