I don’t speak any of these

October 28th, 2004 by Jeff Leave a reply »

Today in the ECE lab, in the past hour and a half, I have heard Cantonese, Korean, and an unknown African language. That’s just here in the lab, sitting at this computer.

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  1. Mitsu says:
    October 28, 2004 at 5:50 pm

    Yeah, we get that every day. More sometimes, including Indonesian, Malay, Mandarine… Says something about our Engineering department, which is rumoured to be 70% Asian.

    I think our university has the highest international student proportion in the world at 46%.

  2. Chao says:
    October 29, 2004 at 2:31 am

    Ahhh… the life of an engineer.

  3. Tracy Smith says:
    October 29, 2004 at 9:42 am

    I know the feeling…except for me it’s either baby babble or barking dogs…Scary thing is, I can actually understand the dogs. I’m still learing to translate the baby!

  4. Haesung says:
    November 6, 2004 at 12:37 am

    At least you’re one of the Americans who can actually tell the difference between Korean, Chinese and Japanese! :)

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