Fun with language barriers...

[msfledermaus]

I was just helping someone who's been visiting Visual Arts mail a couple of packages. The guy's Japanese, and even though his English wasn't bad we had some stumbles in communication. (It makes me want to learn more Japanese--what little I have would not have been very helpful except for "Wakarimasen" which means, "I don't understand."

Where the hell's a babelfish when you need one?
(Yes, I've seen the computer program, but that sucker's *not* helpful.)