Since tomorrow's Grace Talk Soup podcast is about humor and we do a segment that is a parody of I Love Lucy (I Love Language) I thought I'd post this clip from one of the Lucy shows where Lucy tries to communicate with her mother in law.
It can be pretty funny to communicate when you don't speak the same language. I know because my MIL is from Mexico! She does understand English fairly well and I understand Spanish a bit but neither of us speaks the other's language. This makes for some pretty funny miscommunication and we play a little charades as well!
By now you have all probably heard that on Thursday two pop stars lost their lives. Farrah Fawcett lost her three year battle with cancer Thursday morning and Michael Jackson died Thursday afternoon of an apparent heart attack. One of my readers asked if I would be posting about Michael Jackson and, at the time, I didn't think I would be. Communication FUNdamentals is mostly about humor and communication skills. Other than a few media stories in recent years, I haven't really followed Mr. Jackson's life so I wasn't going to comment. However, shortly after his death, there appeared to be some conflicting communication about the cause of his death coming from the transcripts of the 911 tape. It appeared...
This is a funny video from the Skit Guys, Christian comedians who show us how difficult it can be to communicate God's grace.
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This is one of my favorite episodes of I Love Lucy. Since this Thursday's Grace Talk Soup is on the cultural differences in communication, I thought it'd be fun to post this segment of I Love Lucy where Lucy is trying to convince Ricky that his Cuban accent doesn't afford him the ability to speak "Correct English". I especially love the part where he can't figure out how to pronounce the different English words that all end in "ough". English is a funny language and even Americans have a "tough" time of it! Or is that a "too" time of it? LOL Do you have a funny cultural communication story you'd like to share? Come on the show on Thursday...
