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Nice People 12: Nice in Nice
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We got a man in.
He hammered the existing holder below ground level, bought a new holder and put that in straight a foot or two away from the old position.
Couldn't you have done that? Once you realised you realised how important getting it straight was. You'd already proved your hammering ability to be up to the job.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Miss communication.
We were looking for an odd job man out here... Russian ... he thought I wanted him to teach me how to dive.... Hebrew, he thought I wanted heavy things carried up from the basement ..... grunts ... reappeared with tool box, put on gloves to protect the pictures and did the job.
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Isn't there an app for translation?
At least with the diving miscommunication you were looking for pictures to be hung and not somewhere to put your muff.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Isn't there an app for translation?
At least with the diving miscommunication you were looking for pictures to be hung and not somewhere to put your muff.
I've got an app called iTranslate on my phone (free for iOS, don't know about Android)
It's brilliant
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CKhalvashi wrote: »I've got an app called iTranslate on my phone (free for iOS, don't know about Android)
It's brilliant
My BIL and SIL were in Tokyo this summer. They speak no Japanese. The taxi driver spoke no English, but he held up his phone for them to speak into; this was then automatically translated into Japanese so he knew where they were going.
Result all round. Can't have been easy, as they both have accents which are a mixture of Sunderland and Lancashire!0 -
Thinking of you Spirit, have been a lot today x0
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I know flowers aren't allowed in hospital wards. And I'm too far away to take flowers anyway. But here's some of our Sweet Peas in a little bunch that we picked for you Spirit.
Sweet peas for Spirit by ukmaggie45, on Flickr 0 -
My BIL and SIL were in Tokyo this summer. They speak no Japanese. The taxi driver spoke no English, but he held up his phone for them to speak into; this was then automatically translated into Japanese so he knew where they were going.
Result all round. Can't have been easy, as they both have accents which are a mixture of Sunderland and Lancashire!
Whatever app OH has on her phone (I was dealing with Armenians in Tbilisi who spoke no Georgian, and didn't have her with me at the time) had problems understanding my accent in Russian.
Put it into English and tried again (I have a really strange accent, that is a mix of just about everything), and it had no problem.💙💛 💔0 -
Couldn't you have done that? Once you realised you realised how important getting it straight was. You'd already proved your hammering ability to be up to the job.
We knew it needed to be in straight the first time, just that our attempts to do that weren't any good.PasturesNew wrote: »Isn't there an app for translation?
At least with the diving miscommunication you were looking for pictures to be hung and not somewhere to put your muff.CKhalvashi wrote: »I've got an app called iTranslate on my phone (free for iOS, don't know about Android)
It's brilliant
We have used google translate in the past. Out doors without wifi these apps don't work. And the roaming charges outside Europe are ridiculous. Anyway OH has 'O' level russian (his school ran out of german text books in his year) and a smattering of hebrew. Its just me that struggles, clearly my charade attempts are as bad as my DIY skills.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
ukmaggie45 wrote: »I know flowers aren't allowed in hospital wards. And I'm too far away to take flowers anyway. But here's some of our Sweet Peas in a little bunch that we picked for you Spirit.Sweet peas for Spirit by ukmaggie45, on Flickr
Lovely flowers, and a lovely thought!
Who is holding them, by the way?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I have just sticky-tabbed up my first results chapter - one tab for each comment made by my supervisor.
Whilst I'm in the frame of mind to go through and read the comments (there are even some saying that they've found the same things since) I'm going to tab-up the other two chapters.0
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