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What have you accidently done, due to language misunderstandings.| 41 Replies: « back 1 2 3 next » |  pilnikjezerobota Zeibura S. Kathau Post Count: 48 Msg: #41 148 days ago, July 11th 2009 | Haha, just like Basil Fawlty :D | Minimal pairs in French get me like that some times, like I've probably asked for poison rather than fish a couple of times before, and once made an awful faux pas getting "cou" and "cul", neck and backside, mixed up (the L in "cul" is silent so they're just a slight vowel shift apart) The one like this that's always waxed about here is that the polish verb for "to look for" is identical to a considerably more unpleasant verb in czech.. poor Poles must innocently make that one a lot. 41 Replies: « back 1 2 3 next » | Number of Users: 21 | Number of Posts: 41 41 Replies: « back 1 2 3 next » | | ||||||||||||||
