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Subject:RE: Instruction Manuals for Other Places From:"David Godley" <david -at- petroglyph -dot- com -dot- au> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:53:12 +1100
>I wrote a small one for my parents a few years ago
>when they visited
>NYC. It had procedures like "buying a cup of
>coffee" and "taking a
>cab". They even allowed for system malfunction
>(what do you say when
>the coffee guy says something interrogative but you
>don't understand? [**]).
A close relative used this exact method to get a taxi from the old Tokyo airport to a friends house out in a distant subburb.
the instructions he was given were something along the lines of...
get in the taxi and say x
shortly after the driver gets on the freeway he will ask you a question say "y"
after half an hour he will ask you a question, respond "z"
and so on..
after an hour and a half of taxi ride (or thereabouts) he did indeed arrive at his friends home.
While he spoke and read no Japanese, he was fluent in Mandarin and could at least "read" the Kanji of place names so he had an idea he was heading in the right direction.
David
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