LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand - eviltoast
  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    You wouldn’t happen to remember any would you? For some reason I love those “Why is a mouse when it spins? The higher the fewer.” type things.

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        I was having difficulty understanding my Chinese boss one day, and after the third time I asked in total confusion, “What?” He looked at me and asked, “Why you not understand me, am I no speaking English?” I cracked us both up with my reply of, “No, you’re clearly speaking Chinglish!”

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          Her: I am struggling with two words.

          Me: Ok.

          Her: Fuck and fuck.

          Me: umm

          Her: the first one is like a thing for eating a meal.

          Me: Oh! Ok “fork” is what you eat with and “fuck” is what you do in private or yell when something goes wrong.

          Her: Say it again.

          (Multiple minutes later of me saying fork and fuck)

          Her: So I eat with a for-K and f-U-ck in private.

          Me: You got it, now go and fork yourself.

          (Me getting hit with a pillow multiple times while laughing)

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            I have this sort of thing all the time here in Spain, though with shit/sheet.

            There’s plenty going the other way too, of course. At least I don’t mistake miedo and mierda these days …

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              One time I misremembered my Japanese teacher’s mnemonic and wrote that my grandpa was married to noodles.

              Teacher told us grandma is sofu because she has a sore foot from kicking grandpa’s ass. I remembered it as sore bum instead, and changed grandma to soba

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      Not OP but the Toyota MR2 had the following text on the rear window on some units:

      Mature sporty personal

      More innovation more adult

      A man in dandism

      Powered midship specialty

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      I’m trying to remember some of them, or find a photo. I can’t remember what model of vehicle they were though.