以下は笑い話で一読後ニヤリとしていればよい類のものですがこれをまじめに英語で解釈してみませんか?英会話の話題としてもご利用ください。
When Will Smith applied for a driver’s license in Detroit’s crowded License Bureau, an officer hastily thrust a paper across the desk. “Write your last name first and your first name last,” he said hurriedly.
“How’s that again, sir?” asked Smith, somewhat confused.
“Like I said,” replied the cop. “Backwards.”
Smith shrugged his shoulders. After all, he thought, they knew what they wanted. Laboriously he wrote: “lliW htimS.”
(トークラインのご利用者様にお送りしている12月8日付のHANDOUTの一部で、The Reader’s Digestからの転載です)