If you were to combine the following movies:
• “From Russia With Love”
• “You’ve Got Mail”
• “The Exorcist”
• “Saw XXX”
into only one movie, what would the name of this movie be?
1. “From The Exorcist With Love”
2. “You’ve Got A Psycho On The Line”
3. “My First Real Time Chat Session With A RW”
4. All of the above.
The answer is number 4.
I was all worked up about installing Skype on my laptop so I could actually speak with some of the Skype contacts I got from women at Elena’s Models. To this point, I had only corresponded with any of these woman via email. Having the chance to hear their voice would be a nice change I thought. I have to say that I am not very impressed with Skype so far. I have yet to be able to have a call connected and instant messaging is more like homemade messaging…it’s slow, especially when it’s 2:00 AM and you’re doing your best to stay awake.
It was during these wee hours of the morning when I began to sense that the chat session I was having with a 30 yo RW from Moscow was starting to go terribly wrong.
Talk about lost in translation!
My God, what did I say to this woman?
I may just sent Russian-US relations back to the cold war.
I have read the transcript of this session several times and I still don’t know what I may have said to set this woman off. The next thing I know she’s telling me how much she didn’t like ‘americans’ and how I was mocking her, Russians and the Motherland. WHAT? I politely offered my apologies if had had offended her, told her that if I did it was not intentional and asked her to please explain what I had said that was so terrible. She then bid me good night and wrote me off like a bad check.
I have posted the pertinent portion of our last chat in the hopes that one of you can either tell me what I said wrong, or offer me some advice as to where I can hide from this woman.
[2:39:50 AM] ME: hi RW
[2:40:10 AM] RW: hi
[2:40:23 AM] ME: r u at work?
[2:40:28 AM] RW: aha
[2:40:39 AM] RW: today is Friday (dance)
[2:40:42 AM] RW:
[2:40:53 AM] RW: nobody in office
[2:41:00 AM] RW: )))))
[2:41:05 AM] ME: party time!
[2:41:55 AM] ME: what r u doing tonight?
[2:43:21 AM] RW: going to go to my friend
[2:43:35 AM] RW: out of Moscow
[2:43:36 AM] ME: okay then what?
[2:44:19 AM] ME: you are driving out of the city?
[2:44:26 AM] RW: for resting close to Nature
[2:44:42 AM] ME: i love this about you guys
[2:45:02 AM] RW: ?????
[2:45:40 AM] ME: "resting in nature"
[2:45:51 AM] RW: hm
[2:46:06 AM] ME: what does "resting in nature" mean exactly?
[2:46:18 AM] ME: like a vacation?
[2:46:33 AM] RW: r u telling about my chinese english maybe?
[2:46:38 AM] RW:
[2:47:40 AM] ME: in Russia do many people have weekend rest in nature type houses?
[2:49:46 AM] RW: yes
[2:49:59 AM] RW: can imagene?
[2:50:20 AM] RW: imagine
[2:50:23 AM] RW: : ))
[2:50:25 AM] ME: this is great
[2:50:32 AM] ME: i want a house like this
[2:51:16 AM] ME: maybe i should move into one and live in the woods 8-)
[2:51:37 AM] RW: is it funny for u to talk with russian?
[2:51:39 AM] RW:
[2:51:45 AM] ME: you speak chinese english?
[2:51:50 AM] RW: aha
[2:51:55 AM] RW:
[2:52:04 AM] ME: yes
[2:52:27 AM] ME: i can do okay typing though
[2:52:48 AM] RW: ah come on
[2:52:54 AM] RW: ur russian worst
[2:52:57 AM] RW: anyway
[2:52:58 AM] ME: tell me what you do when you "rest in nature" all weekend
[2:53:24 AM] ME: do you swim?
This is where it began to go south…read it carefully because I still don’t get it.
[2:53:49 AM] RW: that's why don't cavil (quibble-I had to look up ‘cavil’ in the dictionary) at every word
[2:54:29 AM] RW: I don't like ur style of communication
[2:54:29 AM] ME: cavil?
[2:54:48 AM] RW: that's why wish u good night and bye
[2:54:56 AM] ME: what is wrong?
[2:55:26 AM] ME: I don’t understand RW
[2:56:17 AM] RW: u r talking with mockery
[2:56:32 AM] ME: i don’t mean to be
[2:57:23 AM] ME: I'm sorry if i insulted you RW
[2:57:33 AM] ME: if i did so it was unintentional
[2:57:51 AM] RW: because u r not so clever man it seems
This is where it got a little strange.
[2:58:13 AM] RW: I don't like american like american don't like russian
[2:58:20 AM] ME: RW, maybe because you don’t know me, you are translating what I say out of context.
[2:58:25 AM] RW: that's why good bye dear american
[2:59:17 AM] ME: I'm sorry RW, I really don’t understand what has upset you
[2:59:44 AM] ME: but if you do not want to chat again, I understand
[2:59:57 AM] ME: take care
[3:00:23 AM] ME: bye
[3:00:34 AM] RW: bye