Originally Posted by
RadioGirl
If by "works" you mean "makes you look like an utter idiot", then, well, yes. If you also mean "marks you as an inexperienced American tourist", also yes.
If you wish to unpack the term in that manner, yes, that is correct.
Not that
all inexperienced American tourists do this. Just the idiot ones.
Reminds me of a conversation I overheard at a SYD int'l duty-free:
Idiot Inexperienced American Tourist: "DO... YOU... TAKE... DOLLARS. ?"
Duty-free shop clerk (sweetly): "Why yes, sir, of course."
IIAT: "OKAY!" *hands over wad of US currency
DFSC (sweetly): "Oh, sorry, sir, no. We take AUSTRALIAN dollars."
I think the IIAT tried to argue that DOLLARS! are AMERICAN! not like that foreign monopoly money, but I had to leave.
See, it worked. The clerk understood them. QED?
