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Lingua 5B 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 01:21
Member (2009)
English to Croatian
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Jenny Forbes wrote:
A Spaniard who speaks no English goes into a smart London draper's shop. The assistant says "Can I help you, sir? What can I show you?"
The Spaniard shrugs and starts pointing at the various drawers.
The assistant brings down a drawer of shirts. The Spaniard shakes his head. The assistant brings down a drawer of ties. The Spaniard shakes his head. The assistant brings down a drawer of socks.
The Spaniard exclaims "¡Eso, sí que es!"
The assistant says "Well, if you can spell it, why couldn't you just say it?"
Love this one. What an unusual linguistic coincidence.
| | | | trent2101
Local time: 01:21
Dutch to Czech
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| This actually happened to me | Apr 17, 2012 |
I came to visit my boyfriend in the Netherlands and he was introducing me to his friends. They knew I wasn´t Dutch.
That´s why the following introduction really confused me.
There came a guy to me, shook my hand and said: Frans.
and I replied: Nee, Tsjechisch.
( of course, his name was actually Frans, while I thought that he was asking me if I spoke French or if I was French)
[Uređeno u 2012-04-17 13:33 GMT]
| | | | btoteva
Bulgaria
Local time: 02:21
English to Bulgarian
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Libor wrote:
You don´t need to know Czech as such for this one, but at least cultural background.
A Russian on the Czech border.
Border guard: Occupation?
Russian: No, just a visit.
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A guy from Poland who does not speak or understand English, is on vacation in the USA and has a violent toothache. So he goes to a dentist, sits in the chair, opens his mouth and, pointing to one of his teeth, says "tu". The dentist immediately extracts two of his teeth. The Polish guy gets angry, points again and says "TEN"....
("Tu", pronounced somewhat similarly to "two", means "here" while "ten" stands for "this one").
An Englishman travels with his wife arou... See more A guy from Poland who does not speak or understand English, is on vacation in the USA and has a violent toothache. So he goes to a dentist, sits in the chair, opens his mouth and, pointing to one of his teeth, says "tu". The dentist immediately extracts two of his teeth. The Polish guy gets angry, points again and says "TEN"....
("Tu", pronounced somewhat similarly to "two", means "here" while "ten" stands for "this one").
An Englishman travels with his wife around Europe. In Poland, they stay at a small, provincial hotel in room no. 2. Once unpacked, the man calls room service and asks for "two teas to room two". The room service answers "parampampam".
(For Polish ear this might sound quite similar to "tutiturumtu" which, along with "parampampam", are just kind of singsong gibberish). ▲ Collapse
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trent2101
Local time: 01:21
Dutch to Czech
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| I know a similar one | Apr 18, 2012 |
Monodia wrote:
A guy from Poland who does not speak or understand English, is on vacation in the USA and has a violent toothache. So he goes to a dentist, sits in the chair, opens his mouth and, pointing to one of his teeth, says "tu". The dentist immediately extracts two of his teeth. The Polish guy gets angry, points again and says "TEN"....
("Tu", pronounced somewhat similarly to "two", means "here" while "ten" stands for "this one").
An Englishman travels with his wife around Europe. In Poland, they stay at a small, provincial hotel in room no. 2. Once unpacked, the man calls room service and asks for "two teas to room two". The room service answers "parampampam".
(For Polish ear this might sound quite similar to "tutiturumtu" which, along with "parampampam", are just kind of singsong gibberish).
in Czech.
it goes like:
an Englishman calls room service and asks for: two rums to room 222.( actually, here "rum" is pronounced in the Czech way, like " rooms")
And the rooms service replies: Tamtaridamtam, you idiot!
| | | | | Polish/Czech joke in (ancient) Brazil | Apr 18, 2012 |
This is told about Brazilian President (1946-1951) Eurico Gaspar Dutra (pron. doo-trah), who received the visit of US President Harry Truman. When they met, Truman supposedly said:
"How do you do, Dutra?"
... to which Dutra supposedly replied:
"How true you true, Truman?"
| | | | Alastair Naughton (X)
Local time: 00:21
German to English
| Related: Variations in English! | Jun 22, 2012 |
My sister and her husband, a highly successful no-win no-fee lawyer in England, were on holiday in the US. Imagine his dismay when they were in the city centre on holiday, and they saw a large sign saying "No Solicitors"
(Solicitor being the highly pejorative term for street traders, and, as far as I understand, can also mean "prostitute").
| | | | Sian Cooper
France
Local time: 01:21
French to English
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In memoriam | My first job in France | Jun 25, 2012 |
My family came to France when I was 14; we were typically poor mad English people living in a ruin, and I got myself a holiday job washing up at a local restaurant to sub my teenage need for new clothes. I didn't speak much French yet, but I didn't need much for that job.
After my first day at work, I was describing it all with enthusiasm to my father. I explained that I worked outside, out the back, and in the courtyard was a hunting dog in a large-ish run/cage - he spent all day b... See more My family came to France when I was 14; we were typically poor mad English people living in a ruin, and I got myself a holiday job washing up at a local restaurant to sub my teenage need for new clothes. I didn't speak much French yet, but I didn't need much for that job.
After my first day at work, I was describing it all with enthusiasm to my father. I explained that I worked outside, out the back, and in the courtyard was a hunting dog in a large-ish run/cage - he spent all day barking, not surprisingly. Anyway, I announced that he was called 'Tagueule',
- and could not understand why my father creased up, not knowing that this was actually everyone yelling 'SHUT UP!' at the poor beast.
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France
Local time: 01:21
French to English
You can Try as hard as you Like to be Kind, German children will always be Kinder.
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