LOL CA! Now you have to share some of the scary phrases!
It reminds me of my parents' trip to China a few years ago. If my dad had a question of a villager, he would ask my mom in English. She would repeat the question in Mandarin to their driver, who in turn would ask the question in the village dialect. Then the answer would travel back up the line in the opposite direction. I wonder how often the answer my dad received had any relation to the question he'd asked!