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Start: Daniel: Your English…
Xi: So.
Daniel: I didn’t realize, until the end of the meeting, that you… (Silence) Speak. English.
Xi: Ah! I, um, live. Outside. China. For am, six year, ah, no, month. Six month. Outside. Therefore, ah. Study.
[... .. ...]
End: Xi: English teacher, yes! Telling, I saying you no. No deal. (Xi gets up to leave. Daniel begins dialing his cell. Then:)
Daniel: But--the food hasn’t arrived yet. Food?
Xi: Oh, I no order. <Thumbs-up!>
Daniel: <Thumbs-up!> But why? Why are you. Helping me? Why? (Pause.)
Xi: Use at your own risk.
Hwang, David Henry, Chinglish, Theatre Communications Group, 2012, pp. 39-48.
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