• beyondtheveil said on Aug 20, 2007....

  et- A few years ago I walked out of a restaurant with a guy one night after having coffee. It was a clear night and the cosmos was shining in all it's glory. As we were looking at the sky, I said, did you know that out of all you see, only planets don't twinkle?
  
  He said "I thought they were all planets".
  

• polarheart said on Aug 20, 2007....

  LOL Twinny about feeling broody!!  I think its a bit soon for you to feel broody!

  In SA we had quite a lot of Afrikaans friends, most people living in SA can understand and speak both English and Afrikaans to varying degrees.  I laughed so much when the one friend had a cold and said that she had a terrible post-natal drip, instead of post-nasal drip!!

  When I just joined the insurance industry at the young age of 19 and had absolutely no experience a customer called in wanting to insure his horse and trailer.  I said, "Sir, the trailer wont be a problem but as far as I know we dont insure live stock". . .to which he of course roared with laughter and explained that the "horse" was the front part of a truck, the part that pulls the trailer.  Of course I felt really embarrased. . .lesson learned! LOL

• evil_twin said on Aug 20, 2007....

  beyond--It's amazing how stupid some people are, isn't it? He thought they were all planets? I guess he fell asleep during the lesson about space and the solar system when he was in school!
  
  polar--I didn't know what broody meant! :-P And those examples are pretty funny! A post-natal drip would be a bad condition to have, I assume! But on that second one, I've never heard of a truck being called a horse either. I would have said the same thing you did!
  

• sweet_cookie01 said on Aug 20, 2007....

  He must be an alien!!!...LOL...LOL...LOL... but on the serious note, i often stumble in that similar situation... and its kinda a bit irritating and frustrating.... there are times i want to say something but i dont know how to say it in english and when i do find a way to say it in english it somehow loses the point of what i meant so say!...(phew that was hard!)

• evil_twin said on Aug 20, 2007....

  cookie--I imagine that it is hard sometimes to find the right words when you're translating them into English! From what I've seen of your writing, you seem to do a really good job with it :-)

• pickersplock said on Aug 20, 2007....

  This is kind of a dumb example, I didn't get the meaning wrong, but I wasn't paying attention to the conversation.  We were watching Pet Cemetery on video in college and I was very engrossed in the movie.
  One of the characters in the movie had spina-bifida, which is a terrible birth defect.  Someone said, "Wow, that looks really painful, doesn't it?"
  I replied, "I don't know, I never had it before." 
  Open mouth insert foot. 

• mom said on Aug 20, 2007....

  LOLOLOL, these things are funny.  My oldest son went out for Thai food and he thought Thai food came from TaiWan.  Right after my procedure, my husband was talking about stool softeners and asked me if I was constipated and I said, "I don't know I haven't gone yet." I was serious but there was condeine involved.
  
  

• minniemouse said on Aug 20, 2007....

  LOL...OMG...that is too funny...and sad!!!  I was once trying to tell an ex-boyfriend that he needed to see a psychiatrist except instead I told him to see a psychic!  He looked at me like I was the one who needed the psychiatrist!  I'm not sure....but it could have been the massive amounts of beer that I consumed right before our "fight"  LOL  :-)  Minnie

• brokenandused said on Aug 20, 2007....

  Hi Evil_Twin!! yes i've had this expierence. My friends cousin was in a band and he was playing at our favorite bar. They were covering that song  cumbersome (i can't for the life of me remember who sings it!) anyway, the lead singer came up to me when begining the song and yelled ______, do you ever get cumbersome? and i was trying very hard to not say anything because i had no idea what it meant!! i was so embarassed. I didn't want to be like "Hell yea!" and have it mean something that you shouldn't be proud of or like hell no!! and people be like " what? why not?" lol. So yea, that was my brain fart of the year.!!

• evil_twin said on Aug 20, 2007....

  Pickers--That is still funny! Yeah, I think we all say things like that from time to time. Embarrassing!
  
  mom--Hey, Thai food from Taiwan is a honest mistake! That's hilarious though :-P
  
  Minnie--That's too funny about the psychic! I can just imagine the look he gave you after that!
  
  broken--That's a great example! Cumbersome, Seven Mary Three sang that. Good song! Did you ever find out what the word meant? If not, it's not something you wanna shout, "hell yeah!" to. It means being a burden. But if you had said proudly said yes, I think everyone would have died laughing! :-P
  

• nursecutie said on Aug 20, 2007....

  OMG......that guy at your work is an idiot!! LOL! That was sooo funny!

  I have a story about someone I work with too. She is not quite as dumb as this guy, but she asked me if I'd ever heard of the famous statue of Venus and Milo!!! LOL!

  She meant Venus DeMilo!! I never laughed so hard! Venus and Milo sounds like a Disney movie...........like Milo and Otis! LOL

  xxoo natalie xxoo

• rightwingwizard said on Aug 20, 2007....

  I couldn't begin to tell you the number of times I have chosen the wrong word.  One instance I do recall, though for the life of me I cannot remember the word.
   
  I was involved in a lengthy discussion with a group of students at college and I used this word repeatedly throughout.  Later that night as I was replaying the conversation in my mind (a habit I have developed) I was amazed by two things.  First that I had chosen that particular word, and second that none of my 'intellectual' friends caught it and corrected me.  Perhaps it was beause I was known at the time for my intellectual snobbery and they were afraid to challange me.
   
  The next time we got together I did make a point of letting them know that they failed to catch on to my gross misuse of the language.  From that point forward they would routinely challange me if they thought I used a word improperly.
   
  rww

• evil_twin said on Aug 20, 2007....

  cutie--That's so funny! Venus and Milo? That's a good one!
  
  rww--That would be pretty embarrassing to realize you used the wrong word all night long! I bet they were afraid to tell you. Or else, they assumed since you were so smart, you knew a different meaning for the word! :-P
  

• wombat said on Aug 20, 2007....

  Can't think of one right now, but reminds me of the word "omnipitant"  (spelling!) on the show Friends.  Poor Joey.... He thought it was "Im Impotent..."  That cracked me up.  Whatever, I read your blog, and got a giggle.  I have conversations with my hubby like this alot, and for the life of me, can't figure out why I don't have something more to contribute.....

• rightwingwizard said on Aug 20, 2007....

  evil:  I was not as embarrassed as I was annoyed,  We all use the wrong word from time to time, whether we admit it or not.  I was terribly annoyed with myself for using it and even more annoyed at them for not challenging me on it.  Had it not been in an educational setting the later might not have bothered me quite so much.  I was a tad arrogant although!
   
  rww

• Mamie said on Aug 20, 2007....

  my example is that for the first twenty years of my life, I said "for all intensive purposes" instead of for all intents and purposes...what can I say? It sounded that way to me and I actually never got caught, I finally saw it in print and said "no shiiiiiitttttt!

• Eilan said on Aug 20, 2007....

  I've heard people say, in all seriousness, that the scientific name for humans should be changed to hetero sapiens.
  
  My best friend drives me crazy, because she messes up a lot of words.  She's what I'd consider fairly well-educated and (sigh) she teaches English/communications.  She says and writes "foilage" for foliage.  When her parents were hospitalized for their various illnesses, she mentioned that her dad might have to have "skin graphs" and her mom tore her "rotor cup."  Drives me batty.
  
  I'm sure I've done something like this at one time or another, but nothing particularly humiliating comes to mind.
  

• travelr712 said on Aug 20, 2007....

  i've spent the last 6 months with des learning english :-) knobhead, rah, and toss pot are my current favorites. i'll resist the urge to go into a diatribe about religious documents and language translation. but oh god, do i ever want to! ;-)
  
  yes, that guy's a moron! i'm studying computers, and i know about evolution. he would have had to have been taught about it in school, so he must not have paid attention, or smoked a whole lot of weed!
  
  i used to do that from time to time, but i learned several years ago that if i didn't understand a word, either ask, or try to get it from context, and if neither of those were appropriate, look it up at a later time. i've looked up enough words over the years that i very seldom hear a new one anymore.
  
  

• hotaka said on Aug 20, 2007....

  My brain is full of words, most of them poorly organized. You know those times when you know you know a good word but you just can't think of it? I have that problem and the opposite. I'll be typing something and suddenly a word will jump out at me from my head. I know I know the word but I can't recall the meaning and I won't know how it applies to what I was just writing. Sometimes the word fits perfectly. Other times the word is similar to another word that I need but not the one I want.
  
  I can't believe that guy didn't know about homo sapiens. Doesn't it mean wise human? No wonder he didn't know. He is not so wise, I guess.
  
  I just watched a Simpsons episode this morning on DVD. This self-help guy says, "What happens when you are no longer a human being? You are a human doing. And what happens next?" Then Bart says, "You're a human going," and he starts to leave the auditorium.
  

• Suddenrain said on Aug 21, 2007....

  I agree with Hotaka. I do the same thing.

• blastfromthepast said on Aug 21, 2007....

  Hahahaha!  This is too funny!  Way back when, a co-worker and I had a good laugh over titles of songs and what we thought they were when we were kids.  Here's a sample:
   
  'Only the Lonely' --- 'Phoney Baloney'
  'Duke of Earl' --- 'Dukabore' (spelling doesn't matter, I was only 6)
  'Green Tamborine' --- 'Green Tangerine'
   
   

• silverwhisper said on Aug 21, 2007....

  o man...that guy was truly scary stupid!
  
  let's see...i'm a bit of a word slut, so i usually can avoid those kinds of problems. jeez, i need to think about this...
  
  ed

• gingersoul said on Aug 21, 2007....

  Hottie.......that Simpson one is hilarious...LOL..."human going"....hahahaha

  ETweenie....I am like Hotaka...my brain is simply filled with words that fight with each other......and in different languages. When i have the perfect word ..usually its in the other language....lol....It can be exhausting sometimes..

  I am in the States by years now ..and yet there are way of sayings that i have impressed in my brain since day number one and still keep popping up ...... Last week my daughter was telling something funny that happened to a friend and laughing i said "Oh, get off my face"..meaning "Get out of my face, i cant believe it"...she stopped talking and started to laugh "Oh, that is soooo wrong, mom"...

  Believe me i can fill this post with this kind of mistakes. But at least they are all bilingual brain related.....at least i know the right way..... its just that sometimes my brain slips....

  But that "homo sapiens" guy is no stupid. He is plain ignorant.  And the fact he said he went to college doesnt surprise me at all. Poor school education produces these results.

   

• destinydiva said on Aug 21, 2007....

  hiya evil~ sorry it took me so long to get here... I'm not with it since my hyper moment yesterday!! I feel drained of energy and i have a zillion bills to get thru so I been scooting in and out, and the dog ate my homework!! lol :-)
  anyways!!  what a story!! geez I say some stupid stuff but that is really dim of the guy!!  funny tho how you tell it :-)
  There are so many things I get totally wrong, i went thru a stage of having a dictionary or google at hand to learn new stuff but i'm laxing behind with everything...  there are a few things between english and americans...that mean totally different things to each of us.... like broody!!
  another is waffling on...  I m kinda learning to use what i learn from trav to make sure i dont come across wrong, just now in my rah crappy flymo post, somebody only understood half of what I said, and it was very ranty and not thought out and translated...  as such :-)
  Destiny xx
  

• bewaresmoothtalkers said on Aug 21, 2007....

  ET.......If you think college means the person should have a certain level of intelligence, Just ask Dexter Manely-(sp), he was a defensive end for the Washington Redskins. He testified before congress that he could not read or write, yet he spent four years at Oklahoma University, then was drafted by the Skins. Chuck Munzie-(sp), who went to either UCLA or USC received passing grades in certain classes, yet never attended a single class. This was revealed by one of his roommates, who also was a football player.
  I don't think there is a person out here who  hasn't had a slip or blunder when speaking, I hope most of us would be the first to laugh at ourselves,so when we laugh at other's mistakes it's just harmeless fun. But when we use terms like Moron, idiot or stupid, that to me shows a lack of class! As some person once said: " I might be Ignorant but I'm not Stupid". Have a nice day.  BST

• evil_twin said on Aug 21, 2007....

  wombat--That's a hilarious example! I remember that episode of Friends. They asked Joey what he would do if he was omnipotent and he said, "kill myself! If little Joey ain't working, I got no reason to live!" That was so funny! I love that show.
  
  rww--I can see why you'd be annoyed that they didn't correct you!
  
  mamie--That's an easy mistake! I think somewhere down the road, I actually thought the same thing you did!
  
  Eilan--Hetero sapiens? Really? That's so stupid! Some people are crazy. I know a lot of people who make those other errors you mentioned and they really annoy me too. But they are pretty funny!
  
  trav--Learning English slang is fun, isn't it? I'm familiar with some of the words, but the rest of them go totally over my head! I had no idea there were such differences. And I studied computers at school too, and I still knew about homo sapiens! I'm pretty sure I learned that in junior high! This guy isn't exactly well read. If it's not a comic book, he won't look at it.
  
  hotaka--I have that problem all the time! Sometimes I'll insert a word into something I'm writing because in my head, it works perfectly. It flows. But then I stop myself because I'm not sure if I'm even using it right. I wish I could remember an example, but I can't! And that guy at my work is a total moron. It does mean wise human.
  
  sudden--I do that too!
  
  blast--Misheard song titles and lyrics are the funniest! I'm totally guilty of that. In fact, I made a post about that awhile back too. Sometimes it's really hard to know what they're saying!
  
  silver--You word slut! I'm sure that at some point, you've done this :-D And yes, that guy was scary stupid. So stupid I really thought he was kidding! Sad that he wasn't :-P
  
  ginger--I bet it is doubly hard to think of the right words and phrasing when you're translating in your head! But it does make for some funny mistakes :-) Get off my face is a good one!
  
  destiny--I'm pretty good at interpreting what you say, even in that post you mentioned! But I have no idea what flymo means. Is that the brand name of the lawnmower? Usually I can decode your English speak though, so it's not a problem! It's funny for me to learn new words!
  
  beware--That's a sad fact, right there. Really sad. But I definitely know it happens. Being a sports hero affords you all sorts of free passes in life. I'm not sure how this guy at my work managed to get by, but I'm sure he did what little he needed to do to pass, and nothing more.
  

• uniquely-ironic said on Aug 21, 2007....

  It's amazing that people with some supposed education have such a poor grasp of words and/or pronunciation.  I have a pretty big vocabulary (especially for a college drop out) and when I run across a word I'm not familiar with I'll ask what it is or look it up.

  My mom pulled the prize winner in our family.  She was trying to describe a poltergeist and she called it a polka geist.  I think I nearly died laughing.

  My most recent tongue stutter was when I was trying to tell my niece that something was incredible but changed my mind half way through the word and wanted to use incredulous.  It came out incredgible.

• evil_twin said on Aug 21, 2007....

  uniquely--A polka geist! You mean you've never heard of that? It will haunt you and drive you crazy by playing polka music at all hours of the night in your house. And then you will start smashing things, just to make it stop! :-P And incredgible is a good new word! It's both incredulous and incredible. I like it! 

• ZsuzsiO said on Aug 21, 2007....

  OH, GUYS! I am working out 2-4 hours 5 times a week, but I the laugh you all gave me now beats all that, I swear! OMG, my abb muscles hurt and I am wiping my tears.....
   
  You know, while reading about the homo-phobic co-worker I couldn't stop thinking that he was probably religous, and went to a school in a deeply religious environment. I know I might be wrong and he IS simply ignorant, but I do know a lot fo people like that. Especially here, in Israel, where the orthodox Jews aren't allowed even as much as a TV, so they won't be influenced by the outside world.
  AS sad as it is, some religious communities believe that evolution, even it's thoery is wrong, and even teaching it is a sin. They think it only confuses the young child, therefore it is a danger in all forms or levels. So maybe you should ask that co-worker if he is comming from some sort of a religious set up, or something.
   
   
  Anyway, in my case I could come up with endless exaples of language abuse, mostly due to the mass all those languages create in my head.
  Not only I used the wrong words in the wrong time, but since I tend to learn better by hearing than reading, and my hearing is not always as good as I'd like it to be, I often learnt words wrongly, and created huge laughs by saying them. Missing the end of it, or thinking it is the same as some other word ans use it in a sentence.....
  Even a couple weeks ago I was in an argument making my point, extremely seriously, when I used a word that had nothing to do with the sentence, but I thought it did. Rapee was looking at me with that "huh?" face, and I was getting mad, cause I KNEW I was right. Than he realized what I was trying to say and laughed, turning my face into red as a tomato.
   
  But just to tell you about one in English (otehre than all of my terrible spelling mistakes):
  I was in the States for a while by than, working in a daycare center. During nap time all of the co-workers used to sit together and chat while having lunch. Knowing that I was not a native, naturally there were a lot of questions asked and the issue of the employment authorization was the most interestin subject to them, who never had to deal with it before.
  So I was telling them about how people do - or don't  get this authorization, and what it means. I was telling them about people who work illegaly, and I used a term I thought was an appropriate slang.
   
  See, both in Hungarian and in Hebrew people say "black jobs", "black workers", so I thought if two different languages use the same slang, the third one must be no differnet. Actually, I didn't really think about it much, just said things like:
   
  "I would never take a black job" or "you have to be the type of person to actually engage in a black job".
   
  For days, even weeks no one said nothing, but I could feel people just didn't like me, and I've had no idea why. I was so nice to evey one, so open and talkitive. The daycare's assistant manager, an African American lady, was so mean to me all the time, I've actually had knots in my stomach every time I saw her. I started to hate going to work there because I felt I was unwanted and mistreated.  
  Untill one day, during one of these lunch time chats, one of the girls looked at me sharply and said:
  " I really don't mean to be rude, but what exactly do you mean by black jobs?"
  "Rude? Oh, honey, just ask anything" (how dumb and naive)
  "No, really, your words are highly offensive, and we are all wondering what you mean by them"
   
  I was shocked to hear that it was me offending people. I expalined to them that working in a country illegaly is what I meant by saying black jobs, and the people who do it are the black workers. I've never even made the connection between people's skin color, and these words. Of course, I could just dig a hole right bellow me, and jump, I was so embarrased. They've all smiled about it, but I just know, the damage was done, and no matter what I did from that point on, I was the white rasist alien.
  Not to mention that this happened in Florida, where these issues a bit more sensitive than up-states.
   
  Of course, I've immediatelly learnt to say "under the table" and it stuck with me so strongly that I even say it this way when I speak Hebrew. Luckily, Hebrew is such a flexible language, anything goes in it. People adopt a lot of English words into the daily language so no matter what I say, I am just fine. 

• destinydiva said on Aug 21, 2007....

  trav...I just saw your comment!!  lmao!!  ....just to set the record straight....those are words I use when I am ranting about my ex...I dont call trav them :-)
  
  evil...you do interpret me well! I was surprised when I met trav that we had a kinda language barrier... I would have assumed english and american were the same except the accent!! and occassional few slang words!! but there is still words and phrases that we come cross from each other and dont understand, crazy huh!!  :-)
  
  Destiny
  
  ooohh ps ...yes flymo is the brand :-)
  
  

• evil_twin said on Aug 21, 2007....

  ZsuzsiO--You do have a good point about the possibility of his religious background. I don't really know all that much about it. He doesn't strike me as the overly religious sort, but then again, his views on homosexuality are definitely a little extreme. I know he went to a regular college and not a bible college though. I guess he just never came across this information! But I'm seeing that a lot of people have trouble translating words into English. I imagine that is really difficult! I can see why your co-workers were so upset and I feel bad that you had no idea what you'd said wrong! I'm glad you had a chance to explain what you meant though. Hopefully they understood that you meant no harm.

• evil_twin said on Aug 21, 2007....

  destiny--I missed ya up there! :-) I get a kick out of your derogatory slang terms too! Knobhead is a good one. It is surprising how different the language is, given that it's the same one! But even in the states, some places use different words for different things. It can be totally confusing without even leaving this country!

• PassionTraveler said on Aug 21, 2007....

  ET
  
  I Soooooo wanted to do a post like this myself. I can't tell you how many times here in SC that I cringed when I read someone's comment or post and saw so many blatant misuses of our English language.
  
  I've even commented myself on such misuses and hoped I didn't offend (especially since one was to the commenters of your own Nurse Cutie's post. (her language was perfect, it was the commenters' usage that gave me pause).
  
  I was a daily newspaper journalist for more than 10 years before switching to the dark side of marketing and public relations and if we didn't know a word, there was absolutely no excuse for not looking it up or asking. Keep in mind that dailies had much more leeway for errors than other less timely periodicals such as magazines which had a week or a month in between publishings, but it didn't matter. We were still held to a higher standard of language usage. I'm like SW, I make mistakes, but I tend to be a bit of a language snob.
  
  I've misused words many times in my past, but once I started looking things up, that stopped. I can, however, relate an incredibly funny story from my newspaper days.
  
  ------------------------------------
  
  The Governor of Louisiana at the time was Buddy Roemer and his platform was on improving the state's education rankings. He held a press conference to unveil a new evaluation system for the public school system requiring teachers to be tested periodically, and of course, our newspaper sent reporters and photographers to cover the event. A rather huge error in the headline made it into the next day's paper, but it's important that I relate EXACTLY how many pairs of eyes reviewed this and NO ONE caught this blatant error, but it was incredibly funny.
  
  The way a newspaper works is a reporter writes the story and usually proof reads his/her copy before forwarding it onto a copy editor who then edits it for content and may or may not offer a suggestion for a headline. Often it's impractical as it may not be known where on a page the story will go and some headlines just don't fit the space.
  
  Once the story has been edited, it goes to the Slot Desk Editor, which means that person does the layout and design for Page One as well as provide another pair of eyes another cursory review for any missed edits. The name slot actually comes from the type of table used for Editor's meetings. The person designated to do the Front Page sat in a recessed part of the table -- literally a slot. Other desk editors may layout sections such as city, state and national wire stories, while others will lay out the Sports or Living and Feature sections of a newspaper.
  
  Now, the Slot editor is the first person to write or see the headline associated with this teacher evaluation story, and once done, prints out a copy for the proofreaders to review.
  
  The proofreader marks any typos, errors or vague content that needs clarification and brings it back to the desk editor. The desk editor makes the changes, maybe gives it another cursory review and then send it to the technicians in the back to print the plates that will be used on the printing presses.  Again, the technicians have been known to find and return editing errors to the desk.
  
  From there, the plates are put onto the presses, the first few runs of the paper are often discarded until the technicians properly adjust the ink flow. As these early runs are usually not meant for public consumption, they are often used for further proofreading. Many times a photo of a bride was returned to the editor to better crop as for whatever reason, the pic appeared to have a wayward breast hanging out. Usually it was a trick of the light, or how it was cropped.
  
  Once a clear, final copy comes off the presses, one of the senior editors as well as any remaining desk editors will proof one last time the entire newspaper, all sections, and especially the front page for any mistakes, typos or errors.
  
  Let's recap:
  
  
  • Slot Editor writes headline
  • Proofreader edits
  • Slot Editor again gets a glance
  • Technicians proof while printing plates
  • Pressmen proof while adjusting ink
  • Senior and junior desk editor formally proof one last time
  • Paper "put to bed"
  
  The teacher evaluation story headline appeared in the left one-column "rail" above the fold, which means you have very few words and decks (lines) to fit your headline. It's the most difficult position to write a meaningful headline.
  
  The headline?
  
  
  Roemer:
  Teachers
  Subjected
  To Pubic
  Examination
  
  
  My ex-husband then was a teacher as well and was the first to call me the next morning jokingly asking me how this PUBIC examination would be conducted and would coughing, sterile gloves, and gowns be required? I had to reread the headline 3 times before my mind would stop automatically inserting the missing L in PUBLIC!
  
  Needless to say it was a valuable lesson NOT to rely on spell check so much. I believe someone later submitted it to Jay Leno's headline segment!
  

• PassionTraveler said on Aug 21, 2007....

  Oh, I was NOT the Slot Editor responsible for this headline by the way. :) Forgot to mention that. LOL

• silverwhisper said on Aug 21, 2007....

  i know i must've, cuz heaven knows i'm a gorrammed doofus, but for the life of me, i can't think of it!
  
  ed

• travelr712 said on Aug 21, 2007....

  des - you remember how long it took for me to understand what you were saying when we first started speaking on msn? i kept asking you 'what?' just about every sentence! i thought you were gonna just wanna stop talking to me because i did it so much! between the accent and the language difference, it took a while for me to catch on.
  and people, let me tell you, if you can actually get her to say more than 2 words at a time, it's like listening to an angel. i sit there spellbound! which means that after two sentences we're just sitting there staring at each other! (we do that allot, and it doesn't seem to matter)
  
  but learn i did, and now i hardly miss a word, the only time there's a problem is when you speak too softly for me to hear. just makes me long all the more for you to whisper in my ear :)
  

• hotaka said on Aug 22, 2007....

  PassionTraveler, it was a long and interesting explanation to get to the punchline and even I read the word with the L and wondered what was so funny until I looked a second time.

  ZsuzieO, what a story. I can see that put you in the dog house with your co-workers. My parents are from Denmark and I heard them use expressions when I was a child that I never questioned but later discovered my family was the only group of people who understood that kind of English.

• Suddenrain said on Aug 22, 2007....

  UI, lmaooooo  :-D

• PassionTraveler said on Aug 22, 2007....

  Forgive my dramatic license, I had to set it up. ;)
  
  PT
  

• evil_twin said on Aug 22, 2007....

  PT--That headline was hilarious! Yeah, there is a big difference between the 'public' and 'pubic'. That school district must be very tough if they really subject their teachers to a PUBIC examination! :-P And by the way, I did see what you posted over at Nat's blog and I was laughing over it! Misspellings like that amuse me.
  
  silver--If you ever think of one (it doesn't even have to be your mistake!) come back and tell us :-)
  
  trav--I know that comment wasn't for me, but I see that my romantic streak is rubbing off on you. She sounds like angel, huh? I hope she reads this because she's gonna love hearing that! :-D
  
  
  

• silverwhisper said on Aug 22, 2007....

  still working on it!
  
  ed

• travelr712 said on Aug 22, 2007....

  well, sometimes i'm romantic, sometimes i'm an ass. what can i say, i'm a man. :-)

• Tara115 said on Aug 22, 2007....

  LOL  omg  what an idiot!!  He hates homo sapians hahahaha  thats  a great story

• Eilan said on Aug 27, 2007....

  My soon-to-be sister-in-law was complaining because she tried to order an ink cartridge for her computer via phone (why she didn't just order it online I don't know) and the customer service rep she was talking to didn't speak English very well and couldn't understand what she wanted.
  
  I can't imagine why.  He'd probably never heard of an "ink cartilage."
  

• queenparanoia said on Sep 03, 2007....

  hahahaha funny story. well since english is not my first language so many events like this happened to me! amd in soulcast too!!! i can't remember them all though... =)

• silverwhisper said on Sep 03, 2007....

  i still got nothing, man!
  
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• VICARIOUS said on Sep 11, 2007....

  By the time I read the notes and scrowled down here I forgot what I was going to say.

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