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Oray
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 6:03 pm    Post subject: What did secretary and man say? Reply with quote

Can someone transcribe what the secretary says?
http://www.geocities.com/web378/bb.mp3

Is this kind of direction instruction somewhat hard to
follow?
http://www.geocities.com/web378/cc.mp3

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willshak
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 6:04 pm    Post subject: Re: What did secretary and man say? Reply with quote

On 11/27/2004 8:39 AM US(ET), Oray took fingers to keys, and typed the
following:

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Can someone transcribe what the secretary says?
http://www.geocities.com/web378/bb.mp3


"Down the hall (way). Right (turn) at the water cooler. Left (turn) at

the fax (machine). Left (turn) at the coffee (machine). Up the stairs.
Third door".
When saying "Down the hall", the secretary may be pointing in a
direction, or the secretary is at the end of a hall and there is only
one way to go 'down' the hallway. In this case, "down" does not mean a
lower level, but 'away from' the current place.

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Is this kind of direction instruction somewhat hard to
follow?
http://www.geocities.com/web378/cc.mp3


Somewhat. It is the kind of directions that have to be memorized and

repeated to oneself at each change of direction.
The first is a little easier (for me, anyway) because there are physical
objects described in the directions.
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