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Originally Posted by lowercasecaps
So, pardon my terrible English, but what's the best way to tell someone that what they are suggesting is a scam?
Random person: You should blah blah blah, cause then you can blah blah blah.
Me: Sir, that's a scam.
or
Me: Sir, that's called scamming.
Or any other way?
This reminds me of an amusing (to me at least) incident from a few days ago.
This guy in the gym, who the most I've ever spoke to was to say something like "Are you finished with those weights?" randomly turns to me with phone in hand and in broken English, asks "How do you say in English... like with clothes?" as he's make a tearing motion with his hands.
I say "Tear? ... Rip?" That doesn't suffice and he looks anguished. He clearly didn't want to take this path but now he has no choice.
He proceeds "I want to say to woman, that my emotions are..." again the tearing motion.
"Heartbroken? Torn up inside?" Still no good.
"You see, she did something wrong to me and now I want to say that my emotions are..."
A few more unsuccessful attempts and I finally say "Look, if she did something wrong, why the hell don't you just dump her?" We laugh amongst ourselves for a moment before going back to our respective workouts.