A few years ago,Prime Minister Mori was given some Basic English
conversation trainingbefore he visits Washington and meets president
Bill
Clinton. The instructor told Mori “Prime Minister, when you shake
hand with
President Clinton, please say ‘how are you’. Then Mr Clinton should
say,“Iam fine, and you?” Now you should say ‘me too’.
Afterwards we, translators, will do all the work for you.”
It looks quite simple, but the truth is…
When Mori met Clinton, he mistakenly said “Who Are You?”.
Mr Clinton was a bit shocked but still managed to react with humour:
“Well, Iam Hilary’s husband, haha…”
Then Mori replied confidently “Me too, hahaha..”
did this really happen?
:k: