re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

Reading the original story now, I am not so sure Miss USA (from NEBRASKA, Anymouse!) was mocking Miss Vietnam or Miss Cambodia for their English abilities. Rather, she was trying in her clueless, white-bread way to express how difficult it was for the two women to understand what others were saying, given that no one there spoke either Vietnamese or Cambodian. (Though I wonder if either learned French or Chinese in school.)

Kinda like the Southern meaning behind “bless their hearts.”