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Aussie woman jokes about having trouble ordering fast food at a drive-thru in America: ‘I need a translator’
- An Australian woman joked that she needs a translator when she is in America
- She posted a video detailing the difficult process of ordering a bottle of water
- Several Aussies got together to share similar stories of miscommunication
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An Australian woman traveling in the United States joked that she needed a translator to order food in America – and thousands have admitted to dealing with the same problem.
Betty Micshfrom Queensland, shared a video on TikTok and Instagram illustrating the difficulties she had with American drive-thrus.
She claimed it was difficult to order a bottle of water when she pronounced it the Australian or British way (phonetically: wo-tah) without the American use of the flap T (phonetically: wa-dder).
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An Australian woman traveling in the United States joked that she needed a translator to order food in America — and thousands have admitted they face the same problem
The video showed Micsh asking for water several times, but to no avail, until she switched her accent to mimic the American pronunciation.
“It’s like I need a translator,” she said.
The flap T, also called a “soft d,” in the word “water” occurs because the letter is between two vowels.
Many went to the comments to share similar experiences with Americans.
“I was trying to order a cheeseburger in the United States and they had to get the manager,” one man wrote. “In the end I had to point to a photo.”
“I did a youth exchange to the US a while ago,” a woman began. “I was in math class talking about my ‘data’ when an American, deeply shocked, asked me if I had a daughter.”
‘Trying to find butter was hell! The grocery store clerk kept taking me to the cake batter aisle.”
Betty Micsh, from Queensland, shared a video on TikTok and Instagram illustrating the difficulties she had with US drive-throughs
Others shared stories of foreigners failing to grasp the level of English literacy in Australia.
“It’s happened to me many times,” said one woman. ‘I was once told that I spoke very good English for an Australian. I asked her what language she thought we spoke, but she didn’t know it.’
Another added: “I’ve seen this so many times in the United States – first they don’t understand what I’m saying, then they refuse to believe that Australians can speak English.”