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| cymrotom Tetraglot Groupie United States cymrympls.blogspot.c Joined 4837 days ago 56 posts - 60 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Mandarin, Welsh | Message 161 of 185 02 March 2011 at 4:21pm | IP Logged |
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Some people learning Welsh can't tell the difference between rhew ice and rhyw sex. So asking for ice can be a comical affair. Edited by cymrotom on 03 March 2011 at 7:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4834 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 162 of 185 02 March 2011 at 5:10pm | IP Logged |
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That one reminds me of one from Finnish. When foreigners are first learning how to speak... or visiting and possibly greedy clergy, they often say "Jumalan rauha" (God's peace) as if it were "Jumalan raha" (God's money.)
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| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 4881 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 163 of 185 10 March 2011 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
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Some mistakes that I made:
I had said to my ex soccer coach (who speaks English fluently): You are a good couch! (I wanted to say Coach). Then he explained to me, it was not really funny though. Also said to a foreigner who I found at the university: You have beautiful white tits (mispronounced teeth). Fortunately, she understood that I was talking about her teeth. I had forgot that teeth was the plural form of tooth. That is why I said teeths mispronouncing the last sound. =/ Her teeth were very beautiful, perhaps her father was a dentist. Edit: Talking with a Chinese person (who I did not know where came from), I asked: What is your mother thong? (instead of tongue). She made a weird face and did reply me ..what? I said, your main language! Then she understood and explained to me. It was more embarrassing than funny. The same Chinese person once told me that she got "many mAssages" instead of "many mEssages" on the messenger.(On Christmas Holiday). Not so funny, but real. Edited by Matheus on 10 March 2011 at 8:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5135 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 164 of 185 09 May 2011 at 9:44am | IP Logged |
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A while back, I wrote an essay on Princess Charlotte of Wales while I was already half asleep. After I'd handed it in, I proofread it for the first time the next morning and found out I had actually written my essay about Princess Charlotte of Whales. Luckily for me, my professor has a sense of humor so she just sent me an email gently suggesting I remove the superfluous h.
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5281 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 165 of 185 10 May 2011 at 4:45am | IP Logged |
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I was talking about a school dance with a group of German speaking friends. I said that a lot of people were
drunk so they were "kicked out" (rausgeschmissen worden), but I accidently said "rausgeschissen worden" which means "shit out"... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4776 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 166 of 185 02 June 2011 at 1:46am | IP Logged |
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The other day, I was at brunch with my family, and we were speaking in Serbian.
My aunt had just gotten some work done on her teeth, so I wanted to compliment her on how nice they looked. But then, for the life of me, I couldn't remember the word for "teeth," except that it began with "zub." Lately, I've been mixing up Serbian and Russian in my head, so my muddled mind decided to take that prefix and, instead of saying зубы, which is the proper Russian form, decided to even further "russify" the word. Somehow, I ended up saying "zubački," which is a mountain range in Montenegro. The table, helped along by quite a few flutes of champagne consumed just prior, roared with laughter until those seated at it were pulling out their napkins to wipe their eyes. I really didn't think it was that funny, but laughter is intoxicating, and we could all barely breathe afterwards. The service staff at the restaurant and the other patrons likely thought we were crazy. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6382 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 168 of 185 03 June 2011 at 8:58am | IP Logged |
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I once accidentally told my sifu's wife I was going to masturbate my way to Peking to meet my family.
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