Lift-speak

In a Bucharest hotel lobby: “The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.”

In a Belgrade hotel elevator: “To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then alphabetically by national order.”

From AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: Identities in a Global Community, 5th Ed.

Fred E. Jandt, San Bernardino: California State University, 2007. p. 134