The proprietor, a middle-aged Asian, reads a Korean newspaper … the Asian has a heavy accent
Asian: eighdy fie sen.
D-Fens: What?
Asian: eithdy fie sen.
D-Fens: I can‘t understand you … I‘m not paying eighty-five cents for a stinking soda. I‘ll give a quarter. You give me seventy ―fie‖ cents back for the phone … What is a fie? There‘s a ―V‖ in the word. Fie-vuh. Don‘t they have ―v‘s‖ in China?
Asian: Not Chinese, I am Korean.
D-Fens: Whatever. What difference does that make? You come over here and take my money and you don‘t even have the grace to learn to speak my language … (Lippi-Green, 1997, pp. 101-102)