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The ESL Dating Diaries: A Collection of Broken English Love Letters (Volume 1)
The ESL Dating Diaries A Collection of Broken English Love Letters - Volume 1 Author:Dan Gardner This twisted but funny collection of broken English love letters started in November of 2006. I was on a dating website & I got an email from a woman whose broken English was just so bad it made me think, "what if I wrote her back in broken English?" As it turned out, each of these "women" I was e-mailing turned out to be overseas scammers jus... more »t trying to get me to send them money! So, i'm simply stringing them along as long as possible to milk as many laughs out of it as I can. I started reading these at open mic night at my school, as well as posting them for my friends to read. I never intended it to reach outside of my hometown of Colorado Springs, but I wound up with over 7000 readers over the course of 2 years, including my biggest fan, in England! I was just aiming locally, not overseas! However, since i've made so many people laugh, I figured, why not try to make it into one big collection & sell it as a book? So now, i've learned how to re-interpret the English language, by replacing key words with words that are similar in meaning, only they are screwed up enough to create a smirking WTF? kind of reaction. You'll understand what i mean when you see the part where I talk about a co-worker that needed to "gather his feces". I tried to keep it clean for the most part, i'd say 98% of it is, but I think the influence from Family Guy, South Park, Henry Rollins & Pearls Before Swine definitely shows!« less