10-24-2006, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Jude30
Slang within the same languages can be quite different. The Equadoran friend I mentioned in the previous post married a guy from the Dominican Republic. Soon after they were married he was using a word that where he is from is considered something like "little girl", but where she was from it had less than flattering conotations. Much confusion and later hilarity insued.
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Yeah, you can get a lot of laughs from a mixed-language relationship.
I think our best is the case of the chicken candy.
We had just moved. She was unpacking a box of food. She found this jar. It had a picture of a chicken on it and contained little wrapped blocks. She has enough curiosity for a dozen cats, she tried one. Thus was her introduction to bullion cubes. |