@eye. 493965 wrote:
Lol no not at all. XD
I heard a story once about someone going into a chinese with a broken finger and getting some chips. They asked him if he wanted salt and vinegar, he thought they said “Sore finger?” and started talking about how his finger hurt. :laugh_at:
Ha ha, that’s one of the great accidental by-products of different cultures mixing man, it leads to some amusing situations as regards language & wordplay. I heard of an incident years ago when Thatcher was in power & she was having a chat with a visiting foreign dignitary, and in response to something he said, she said ‘out of sight, out of mind’. Unfortunately the translator had never heard this English colloquialism & relayed it to the dignitary as ‘blind and mad’!
On a similar theme, the car maker Mitsubishi has a 4×4 model called the ‘Pajero’. Quite a normal name, but it doesn’t sell well in Spain where pajero means wanker!
Also, John Toshack, the former Liverpool player & Wales boss had a spell in charge of Galatasaray in Turkey in the mid-late 90’s. At his very first game, he was introduced to the crowd who fell about pissing themselves laughing because toshak is turkish for bollock!
