Miss Toria
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Oct-4-2007 07:47
Have you ever said something to somebody who totally misunderstood what you said or meant?
It happened to me a lot and thought it would be fun to hear your stories.
Expl:
I didn't learn english in school. I learned it from american friends who lived in my country.
Then I went to work to England for a year...
Well, let's just say I quickly realized that there are differences between american english and british english.
Like DO NOT tell someone in England that you like their pants!
They might wonder what exactly you want from them.
Or just simple mistakes...
Here is a funny storie that happened with me and my husband just before we got married.
As I mentioned before english is not my native language. He grew up in a bilangual family, so he sort of counts as one. :)
We were in the kitchen preparing dinner.
I handed him a half onion and asked him to wrap it in some aluminium foil.
Few seconds later I turned to him and I saw that he was diligently rubbing the onio in the foil.
I asked him what he was doing and he said that he wasn't sure, he just did what I asked him to do.
In my language we don't have a "W" sound, so sometimes I just bite it off. :)
That's why he thought that I asked him to rub the onion instead of wrap the onion.
So do you have something funny to share with us?
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kenb
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Oct-5-2007 02:40
I met my ex wife here in the Chicago area, but she was born in a town called Linares in Mexico. Early in our marriage we decided to take a vacation and visit her home town. I was just starting to learn the spanish language and was eager to communicate with her relatives who spoke no english.
The first afternoon there my wife and I were seated outside with a group of her female relatives and I was mostly lost trying to figure out what they were talking about. At one point I recognized the word "leche" which means milk in english and that my wife said "no me gusta" which means I don't like it. I knew that me wife didn't like milk so, eager to jump into the conversation, I said, "oh, a mi me gusta mucho," which means I like it a lot.
You can imagine how red my face was when my wife told me that they were talking about breast feeding.
Oops.
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