Another iPhone app came along and jumped out at me, begging me to give it a try.  I am so weak willed when it comes to my apps, so I downloaded The Saucy Phrasebook from Sosauce.com and gave it a try.

The app claims to help you speak your mind in an array of languages, by providing useful emergency, flirtatious, and necessary phrases in Mandarin, French, Hindi, Japanese, Spanish, and Russian.  Not exactly the languages I’m looking for, but I chose Spanish and gave it a go.

There were a small handful of phrases designed to “help me out.”  Tap on the phrase that you need, and it’s repeated in perfect native tongue.  Sounds pretty darned good.  Except I can’t imagine needed phrases like “Help!  I just got swindled.”  Or “I’m new in town, can you give me directions to your apartment.”

The lines were fun and silly, and of very little use to a traveler outside of a laugh or two.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a good laugh.  But I don’t need to take up precious app space with a useless phrase guide.  This app got deleted almost as quickly as it took to download it.

Pass!

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