Me and a few colleagues were in a conference call today with a French lady and a German guy.

Both of them were from the business team in my company. They speak fairly good English but with heavy accents. We were discussing a tricky problem of getting a male connector into a port which would include an arc like motion and this was how the discussion went.

German guy: Ze konnector needs zo kome into ze port via an arck-like motion.

German guy: Yezh, I kan’t come straigtht because ze hole is blockged.

French lady: Jyou means jyou can’t comme straitght?

French lady: So jyou are sayingh that jyou cant comme straigtht because it tiz blocked?

German guy: Yezh ze konnector kannot gome straight.

German guy: I kan’t come straight bekoz the ole iz blockged!

French lady: How comme jyou can’t comme straigtht?

French lady: I still don’t gettit. How comme jyou can’t comme straigtht?

German guy: As I mentionged, ze konnector needs zo kome into ze port in an arck-like motion.

At this point we had to press the MUTE button so that the other end did not hear us laughing our hearts out. :P