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How embarrassing!
By: Allie Date: November 10, 2018, 9:10 am
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I've found out that... er.... how do I even say it?
Well... that "Netflix and chill" is not really about Netflix...
or chill.
How embarrassing!
There are even memes about it. Thousands of them!
Have you ever made this kind of mistake in your target language
(maybe even in your native language), when you think something
is something completely different?
Share your funny stories so either of the two:
1 - I can feel better
2 - We can all feel bad together
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Re: How embarrassing!
By: Truman Overby Date: November 10, 2018, 11:06 am
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[quote author=Allie link=topic=601.msg9066#msg9066
date=1541862652]
I've found out that... er.... how do I even say it?
Well... that "Netflix and chill" is not really about Netflix...
or chill.
How embarrassing!
[/quote]
I've seen huge stickers in the back of young guys cars that say
"Netflix and Chill" I too took it literally for a long time. So
it's not just you who are learning English who got stumped by
this. Now you can chill, Allie. ;)
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Re: How embarrassing!
By: NealC Date: November 10, 2018, 12:24 pm
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Im 53 now.
My definition of "Chill" depends on exactly what is on Netflix.
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Re: How embarrassing!
By: NealC Date: November 10, 2018, 12:29 pm
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Americans get song lyrics wrong all the time:
HTML https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/08/misheard-song-lyrics_n_5568769.html
I even saw jukeboxes marked with "Surfer Jet City" (David Bowie
- Suffragette City)
Jukebox. God I am old.
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Re: How embarrassing!
By: Allie Date: November 10, 2018, 12:43 pm
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I am feeling better know
@Truman
No chill for me!
@Neal
I love the article!
We mishear English lyrics in other languages too.
If you type “ajudar o peixe” (to help the fish) on Youtube, the
results will bring a Billy Idol song.
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Re: How embarrassing!
By: Alharacas Date: November 10, 2018, 3:14 pm
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Allie, I've got three for you. Take your pick:
- I was quite young, maybe 11, when I heard this wonderful song
on the radio. I remember practically crawling into my tiny,
portable radio to try and catch what the DJ said at the end of
the song, and then proudly writing down "Lady in Black" by Your
Royal Heap.
- Shortly after moving to a small Spanish town on the seaside, I
met a nice young woman who told me she'd be happy to help me
practice my Spanish if I'd let her practice her English with me.
We were taking a walk in the harbour when she told me she and
her boyfriend had a sheep. I was so surprised, I hardly knew
what to ask about first. Why only one? Wasn't it unhappy? What
did they feed it? Was it a pet, and did it sleep in the house?
Fortunately, I ended up asking what they did with it. Was told
they sometimes took it to Mallorca. Really? Oh yes. But it was
quite expensive, because it needed so many repairs. And that's
when it finally dawned on me.
- At about the same time, on market day, I ran into an elderly
gentleman I'd met at a friend's house. Politely asked him how he
was. Was told that unfortunately, he was "constipado". Gulped,
because: WAY too much information! Apparently, it was something
he frequently suffered from. Er. Oh. Kept trying to come up with
something helpful to say and failed. Said goodbye and left
feeling quite bemused. Told a friend about it and got laughed
at, because "constipado" means "head cold" in Spanish.
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Re: How embarrassing!
By: Allie Date: November 10, 2018, 3:22 pm
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@Alharacas
I will have to go with the constipado story for... er... no
reason
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Re: How embarrassing!
By: NealC Date: November 10, 2018, 4:08 pm
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I hired a Spanish Grandmother to babysit my daughter when she
was very young and I was working. (I didn't think it was such a
good idea until I came home for lunch and grandma said the magic
words -- "Quiere algo para comer?" and started cooking!) One
day the Grandmother told me she was having so much trouble with
her colon. On and on, a lot of pain and trouble all the time.
I made sympathetic noises and was embarrassed as hell, why was
she talking to me so much about her colon?
Of course it was the Spanish word 'Colon' - 'column' - spinal
column -- back pain, and all that pointing rearwards wasn't to
her butt after all :-)
And of course the story I have heard so many times it has to be
anecdotal - the young female English speaking exchange student
telling her hosts how she is embarrassed by her Spanish, not
knowing that embarrazada in Spanish means pregnant.
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Re: How embarrassing!
By: SHL Date: November 10, 2018, 5:59 pm
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[quote author=NealC link=topic=601.msg9076#msg9076
date=1541887705]
I hired a Spanish Grandmother to babysit my daughter when she
was very young and I was working. (I didn't think it was such a
good idea until I came home for lunch and grandma said the magic
words -- "Quiere algo para comer?" and started cooking!) One
day the Grandmother told me she was having so much trouble with
her colon. On and on, a lot of pain and trouble all the time.
I made sympathetic noises and was embarrassed as hell, why was
she talking to me so much about her colon?
Of course it was the Spanish word 'Colon' - 'column' - spinal
column -- back pain, and all that pointing rearwards wasn't to
her butt after all :-)
And of course the story I have heard so many times it has to be
anecdotal - the young female English speaking exchange student
telling her hosts how she is embarrassed by her Spanish, not
knowing that embarrazada in Spanish means pregnant.
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Well, if you just had a birthday, Neal, and turned 53, happy
birthday to you!
Not to worry, but I just had a friend I`d known for about 10
years drop dead 2 weeks ago at 54. Heart attack. Geez. I think
he made it to the ER and lasted an hour or two but didn`t make
it. He`s still a facebook friend, but how does his family remove
his facebook page without the Password to the account? It`s kind
of weird. I guess he`s stuck on Facebook forever.
But, yeah, like they say getting older is not for the faint of
heart. On the other hand it beats the alternative (I had a
secretary 10 years ago I said that to and she asked, „What`s the
alternative?“) Wow. How about the grave lady?
You might be old enough to remember the old stand-up comedian,
Mom`s Mabley? She always wore these old clothes and
funny-looking hat? She said once in an act that she liked
younger men but could never find a young one to marry her. So
she got stuck with these old ones? She said, her one husband
asked her once, „Where you gonna find another man like me?“ She
answered, „the graveyard.“
Then she said she went to his sister´s funeral and the preacher
slapped him on the back at the funeral home and asked, „So, how
old are you pops? He said, „94.“ The preacher said, „Well then
there ain`t no point in you going home then, is there?“
Oh, the joys of getting old. You`re ditching and dodging health
bullets all the time. Not like when you’re 25. Gosh you`ve got
colonoscopies to look forward to, a PSA test, and all this BS.
Yuk. I wanna be young forever.
I liked your comments about false cognates in languages. That´s
pretty funny. I always love the French one you see on all the
packages along with the other languages and you see this big
„AVERTISSEMENT!“ Then the English is WARNING! Or „CAUTION!“ It
sounds so nice, like, „hey folks, just a little advertisement
that if you mess this thing up it might blow your heard off. :)
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Re: How embarrassing!
By: NealC Date: November 10, 2018, 6:58 pm
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My birthday is end of the month, I will be 54. :-)
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