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

    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)

    • LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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