A Traveler's Generic Phrase Book and Novel

by Shirley B. Trew

Thursday, May 3, 2012


POST #27—NO, THANKS

No, thank you.
No, it's very pretty but no thank you.
Thanks, I just ate one.
No thank-you, I just bought one.
Thanks, but I have one already.
No, please, I don't need one right now.
No, my friends in the United States don't need one either.

No thanks, I couldn't carry it with me.
No thanks, I just don't want one.
No, we're eating now.
No thanks, please we're trying to talk.
I can't just give a hundred bongoes to anyone who asks.
We are not rich.
Not all Americans are rich.
No, they aren't.

No, I can't give you my pen. I need it to write down how many bongoes I'm spending.
I'm writing a post card.
I'm writing a book.
No thank you.
Why don't you give me ten bongoes.
Do you want to buy my camera?
It cost 80 million bongoes.
No, I won't pay 500 bongoes to take a picture of you and your brother.

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