Wednesday One-Liners for the Polyglots
Frustrated bouncer: You don't speak Spanish, you don't speak Chinese, what the fuck do you speak?

--Broome Street, Chinatown

Woman, talking to friends: And I love how his "Dominican" wife has an Irish accent.

--109th & Broadway

Overheard by: Cassandra

Crazy guy running: The British are coming! The British are coming!

--8th St & 6th Ave

Woman talking to friend: So this Chinese guy told me he was speaking Vietnamese. I never knew that Vietnam was in china! I felt so ignorant after that.

--St. Mark's & 1st Ave

30-something woman to her female friend: I didn't know he was gay. I just thought he was French.

--E 34th St

Foreign woman, after the entire audience has been screaming "Cunt! Cunt!" at the end of "Reclaiming Cunt" during "The Vagina Monologues": I think my English is improving!

--New School


via Overheard in New York, Apr 9, 2008