Thomas Swick’s Updated Guide to Phrases for Visitors
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 07.05.05 | 2:09 PM ET
To mark the Fourth of July holiday, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Travel Editor Thomas Swick wrote an unconventional column entitled, “Of these I sing.” A thoughtful list of items followed that included jazz, “Leaves of Grass,” Tex-Mex and James Thurber. His terrific June 5 column, on the other hand, was packed with useful new phrases for visitors wishing to communicate in 2005 America. It began, “Hello, my name is…I am from…” What followed were several options: “the coalition of the willing; the coalition of the unwilling; one of the new democracies rising in the Middle East; the Islamic brotherhood; a burgeoning Asian economic power.” Another passage was designed to help those at the rental car office, where one always needs to be up on the latest trends. Swick’s suggested phrases: “I would like ...a compact car; a minivan; an SUV; a Hummer; whatever you think Jesus would drive.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
