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Re: [OM] IMGS: Riding the Dumb-waiter

Subject: Re: [OM] IMGS: Riding the Dumb-waiter
From: Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 13:38:03 -0400
All sign language! She spoke no English and very little Farsi. In this village 
they speak Middle Persian - an ancient language still spoken in the mountains 
here. Our guide had an app on his cell phone to translate but he didn't ride 
the dumb-waiter with us!

Tina

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> On May 11, 2016, at 12:18 PM, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I was wondering about the language of communication between the two ladies as 
> they rode the dumb waiter. English perhaps or some mixture of English and 
> Farsi.
> 
> jh
> 
>> On 2016-05-10 9:20 PM, ChrisB wrote:
>> That sounds delicious, Tina, but the dumb waiter doesn’t!
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>>> On 10 May 16, at 22:14, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We ate dinner at a tiny, local restaurant in Abyaneh.  The meal was Dizi, a
>>> lamb and chick-pea stew served in a stone crock.  It was delicious but
>>> there was no kitchen in the one-room restaurant.  The kitchen is underneath
>>> and food is brought up on a dumb-waiter.  Unfortunately, when dinner was
>>> over and I needed to use the toilet, I discovered it was in the kitchen and
>>> the only way there was on the dumb-waiter:
>>> 
>>> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000NnQhtbxhC6w
>>>  
>>> <http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000NnQhtbxhC6w>
> 
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