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Those Things that Make You do a Double Take
Earlier today I was reading a textbook on Management, and in one of the example cases, it read, |
In my own language actually.
They spell it fuk in dictionaries but it's pronounced fuck not fook. It's a name a friend of mine has. It derives from the word 'pumpkin' - fuk tong' |
Ah, yeah, I think I remember hearing about the fuk word before. :lol: |
but....XieXie doesn't sound anything like shit...
I will mention at the very begining of our Taiwan trip, we had to sit in an assembly and listen to some speeches in full Mandarin we couldn't understand and most of the group hadn't had Chinese before and kept commenting on the the fact that (Nei ge/na ge) sounded like 'nigger' they were so silly XD |
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I had to read the conclusion for my science project which my partner wrote in front of the class, I don't really remember what word it was that he confused it with but it was something along the lines of .. Quote:
I almost died. In my elementry years a bunch of the boys would say nipple instead of nickles..but it was probably them being silly. |
@Wingless: It's pronounced 'shieh-shieh', in a forceful way like you would when you stub your toe and exclaim "Shit!!", just without the 't' sound. :P |
@Ell: Lmfao! That reminds me of my own science class.
The teaching part of class was pretty much over; so everyone was just kind of chatting and doing their own thing. The teacher came over to a friend and I while we were reading some little astrology activity book or something. We gave it to her and she started reading it. We just kind of faced forward and listened to her read aloud and then she said, "Now, close your ass.." She stopped and we looked at her. Then looked away, and then back at her and just kind of stared like "Did you just say that?!" We laughed a little bit and then she gave the book back and walked away. :XD |
lol! Was she going to say 'mouth' but misfired? :rofl: |
Eyes. They are so close! :XD
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I never thought it sounded like shit. O.O I use it myself. XD
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Yeah. I never realized it either until someone told me the joke. :XD And now I have another one...'那個'. :lol: |
I do a lot of double takes, because the way my eyes work, I read things wrong a lot.
Like I saw this church sign once that said "When you get to heaven, Jesus will kiss you!" but I read it as "When you get to heaven, Jesus will kick you!" and I was like, WHY?? :gonk: And this other time, there was a flashing sign at a restaurant, and I still don't know what it actually said, but what I read was "COME EAT OUR NEW WALLEYE NAKED!" >< |
There was a church sign around here that said "backdoor worship service". My friend and I were like :did that sign just say that?". My friend turned the car around and we had to take a picture of the sign. XD
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The word "sick" is pronounced like the Turkish word for "penis". Are you asking for such stuff?
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I suppose it depends on what you find "funny."
I wouldn't look twice at it :S. |
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@Kita: lmao! :XD I remember reading a lot of signs like that too, unfortunately I can't remember any of them that were in English...:sweat: There was a road sign that was supposed to be 'steep rising slope', but I kept reading it as 'underworld hill'. :sweat: |
During my 4th year in German class in highschool, we had a fairly new book, that still had a good number of years on it. The book had been used since the school had opened 6 years before hand, and it caused great laughs at times with the preset characters in to the video track included. On the fourth month in, my german teacher told us we need to switch out to a newer, cleaner version of the book. Most of my class and I couldn't quite understood what she ment. If anything, the book was so clean it made the two guys trying to pick up two sisters look like they were mentally challenged. Then the teacher proceeded to explain, how apparently a mother had gone looking through the book an found a photograph of a news stand. The mother apparently had a really big magnify glass with her, bcecause she proceeded to look at every magizine on the newstand-- and found a pronographic one. Seeing as how the idea of someone really doing that confused us, we went ahead and opened our books to find the picture. It was only one picture of a newstand, and no one in my class could tell which magizine was the pronographic one. So my teacher decided to help out and pulled up the online book and turned to the picture, proceeding to magnify the image on the magizines. We had it all the way at 800% before we saw a very vague outline of a pronographic pose---- but it was so blurred we could not see anything other than a vague outline. Makes me wonder, how dirty was the mind of the mother who reported it? |
I was typing a paper once and accidentally ran two words together. The result was that it ended up saying "get sexercise" instead of "gets exercise."
I was so thankful that I proofread that paper before I turned it in... We had those moments constantly in my Latin class. There was a certain story in one of our books about a merchant asking customers to feel his "big, shiny gems." I don't know that anyone actually took that the wrong way until one of my friends happened to be in the class and burst out laughing when we got to that line. Fortunately, our Latin teacher had a great sense of humor and actually makes fun of that story herself quite often now. Another one that comes to mind is that the Latin verb for "to make" or "to do" is "facere." In its imperative form it changes to, simply, "fac," which always sounds rather awkward when spoken out loud. I wasn't in the class when this happened, but a few years ago there was a student at my school who had taken Latin who actually stood up in class and shouted, "Fac me!" when his teacher told him to do his homework... and then, of course, he had to explain to her that he had actually just said "Make me" in Latin. |
@MisfitDoubt: o_O Also makes me wonder just what the mother had been doing to have magnified that image to such a size...>_>; |
Well, I am always slightly amused by 'lul/lulz' as alternative spelling of 'lol', since 'lul' is Dutch for penis, though more like 'cock' or 'dick', dirty/slang-like.
And lol itself is Dutch for fun, but that's at least closer to what it's supposed to mean. xD |
ahh, wel I don't say 'shit' often, so I guess they've never sounded the same to me really XD
yeah XD it became the running joke of the trip XD |
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He's first generation Japanese in Canada for his family. ---------- Well, not much makes me do a double take but the other night, I locked myself out. I called my landlord at about 4 am because no one would wake up to me pounding on the door as hard as I can (and even with my tv at a decent level, I can hear the door OPENING where I live). As soon as she came and I opened the door, she told me that there's a $25 charge... It's not written in my lease, so I'm not paying it, but I almost just stood there and was dumbfounded. I got a friend who knows the legal system really well, he went over my lease and told me I don't have to pay it (thankfully, I don't have any money to pay bogus charges any month because I barely have enough to eat each month). |
@飛段: Yep, I still have the picture. I still find it pretty funny too. XD
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