Monday, December 15, 2008

More Fun with Engrish

"we rejected his colon but now he has mets so we will reject his liver too"
...i think he meant resect but reject is colourful.

---

resident: "his chief complaint was screaming"
me: "screaming?.. like.. yelling?"
resident: "no no, X-ray Pliya San"
me: "ooh. screening."

---

sensei: "she is a 40 year old woman and she speaks english. you should take a history from her"

if i had known to swap every she with he, woman with man and her with him, i wouldnt have wasted half an hour searching for a nonexistent english speaking female.

---

listening to a japanese person say "irregularly irregular" never gets old

2 comments:

K-Pax said...

why do we say irregularly irregular?

Priya S. said...

sorry, its not specific to japanese.. its a medical term used to describe the pulse of a person with atrial fibrillation