I'm sorry could you repeat that? I don't speak Engrish.

It's amazing what you can see on TV if you stay up late enough. Here it is 2:00 am and I'm watching the World Championships in Helinski. It's pretty awesome stuff to watch but by far the most interesting moment so far came after one of the long distance track competitions when a female Japanese reporter tried to interview the winner from Kenya in English-talk about a comedy of errors. The poor guy has just finished running 10,000 metres and his english comprehension is probably poor at the best of times. The reporter, who I'm sure was doing the best she could, was speaking in a strange language that only an experienced english teacher would be able to comprehend. Unfortunately I have my grandmother's memory or else I'd post a transcript of the conversation. The questions were mainly variations of "Who do you want to tell your medal?" followed by a confused stare from the poor Kenyan along with an answer that had nothing to do with the question at all. I suppose I shouldn't be too critical-that's the kind of thing that hockey players do all the time.