• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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