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** ThisTroper always got the impression that HK-47 deliberately tries to disrupt talks to start a shoot-out.
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* Happens in ''{{Andromeda}}'', when Harper tries to say an old Vedran proverb ("A wise man knows his limitations") to Rev but ends up saying, "A fast swimmer keeps no pets." Since Vedran is a made-up language, there is, understandably, no way to verify that.
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* ''JohnnyEnglish'': When [[RowanAtkinson Johnny]] tries to speak in romantic Japanese to Lorna, it comes out as "May all your daughters be born with three bottoms."
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A character thinks he can speak some language, but fails comedically and says something entirely different than what was intended.intended - often complete nonsense or something rude. He tries to say "Can I please buy some matches?", but actually says "My Hovercraft Is Full Of Eels". HilarityEnsues.
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*** Actually, they are not pronounced the same way. Abrazar is pronounced abraθar while abrasar is pronounced abrasar. However, in most Spanish speaking south-america and andalucia, both θ and s are pronounced the same way, due to cultural reasons. In any case, the correct pronunciation is the different sounds for Z and S.
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Similiar to English, "ji"(鸡，pitch 1) means cock, both in the sense of chicken and manhood, with an additional meaning of hooker.
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* The word for "comb" (the noun) is "peine." The word for "penis" is "pene." Americans (especially those in the South) frequently have trouble pronouncing it the difference. Leads to lots of Spanish students saying "I penis my hair every morning."
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* The word for "comb" (the noun) is "peine." The word for "penis" is "pene." Americans (especially those in the South) frequently have trouble pronouncing it the difference. Leads to lots of Spanish students saying "I penis my hair every morning.""Please give me the penis," when they actually just want a hair-detangling instrument.
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* The word for "comb" (the noun) is "peine." The word for "penis" is "pene." Americans (especially those in the South) frequently have trouble pronouncing it the difference. Leads to lots of Spanish students saying "I penis my hair every morning."
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Similiar to English, "ji"(pitch "ji"(鸡，pitch 1) means cock, both in the sense of chicken and manhood.manhood, with an additional meaning of hooker.
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* Uncle in French is Oncle, if you see or hear the word Encule, it means "up your ass", literally.
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* For the show's resident {{Omniglot}}, [[TheATeam Murdock's]] Italian isn't too great. Although the English speaking mooks around him don't know any better and it helps his disguise, it cumulates in him asking two men to 'have his baby'.
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* Related to the "Matt as a cognate for dead" example up in the Arabic section, the Hebrew word for death is "emet". This makes watching BackToTheFuture rather humorous, especially when you're watching Mary Steenburgen shouting "Death! Death!" while searching for Dr. Brown.
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*** And in Japanese "Oh, is that so?" is pronounced "Aa, sou (desu ka)?" which remarkably sounds like "Arsehole/asshole" in English, so...
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*** Except it's bullshit, because he was gibbereshing when captured by Chief Somebody-will-pay-for-this.
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* One of the "Get a Mac" ads in the UK had PC attempting to communicate with a Japanese printer (Mac had language compatibility and could do so). He spouted the phrases "I am a rice cake" and "Where is the train station?"
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* A German beer commercial had Japanese businessmen in a beer garden doing this. When the waitress arrives, one of the Japanese says "Ich möchte diesen Teppich nicht kaufen." (I do not want to purchase this carpet). The waitress just nods and proceeds to serve them the advertised beer brand with the businessmen happily accepting.
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* A German beer commercial had Japanese Indian businessmen in a beer garden doing this. When the waitress arrives, one of the Japanese them says "Ich möchte diesen Teppich nicht kaufen." (I do not want to purchase this carpet). The waitress just nods and proceeds to serve them the advertised beer brand with the businessmen happily accepting.
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**** Calling someone a "female dwarf" is generally a cultural mistake, but especially given the book's early references to some dwarfs actually showing their feminity and Cheery's behavior both in that book and in later ones, Angua was probably ''trying'' to say that she knew Cheery was female in order to express solidarity with her. After all, Angua's not exactly a "normal" woman either, given that she's a dog sometimes. Also, it's actually fairly likely that dwarfish contains no direct words for "female dwarf" in any case, and the closest Angua could get -- especially with her limited knowledge of dwarfish -- was the bizarre phrase she ended up using.
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**** Calling someone a "female dwarf" is generally a cultural mistake, but especially given the book's early references to some dwarfs actually showing their feminity and Cheery's behavior both in that book and in later ones, Angua was probably ''trying'' to say that she knew Cheery was female in order to express solidarity with her. After all, Angua's not exactly a "normal" woman either, given that she's a dog sometimes. Also, it's actually fairly likely that dwarfish contains no direct words for "female dwarf" in any case, and the closest Angua could get -- especially with her limited knowledge of dwarfish -- was the bizarre phrase she ended up using. In any case, as was mentioned above, Cheery seemed to understand Angua's intent.
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**** Okay, it's probably Angua MEANT to say 'Dwarf, Female.', and instead got the above, which explains EVERYTHING. Though, again 'female dwarf' is also a cultural mistake...and I've gone cross-eyed.
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**** Okay, it's probably that Angua MEANT ''meant'' to say 'Dwarf, Female.', "female dwarf" and instead got the above, which explains EVERYTHING. Though, Then again 'female dwarf' is also a cultural mistake...mistake ... and I've gone cross-eyed. cross-eyed.
**** Calling someone a "female dwarf" is generally a cultural mistake, but especially given the book's early references to some dwarfs actually showing their feminity and Cheery's behavior both in that book and in later ones, Angua was probably ''trying'' to say that she knew Cheery was female in order to express solidarity with her. After all, Angua's not exactly a "normal" woman either, given that she's a dog sometimes. Also, it's actually fairly likely that dwarfish contains no direct words for "female dwarf" in any case, and the closest Angua could get -- especially with her limited knowledge of dwarfish -- was the bizarre phrase she ended up using.
**** Calling someone a "female dwarf" is generally a cultural mistake, but especially given the book's early references to some dwarfs actually showing their feminity and Cheery's behavior both in that book and in later ones, Angua was probably ''trying'' to say that she knew Cheery was female in order to express solidarity with her. After all, Angua's not exactly a "normal" woman either, given that she's a dog sometimes. Also, it's actually fairly likely that dwarfish contains no direct words for "female dwarf" in any case, and the closest Angua could get -- especially with her limited knowledge of dwarfish -- was the bizarre phrase she ended up using.
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* {{Candorville}}: Lemont does this in...[[http://candorville.com/2007/02/21/book-2/ let's call it grunt-speak.]]
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* Fighter achieves this in [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/01/13/episode-795-language-barrier/ this episode]] of ''EightBitTheater''.
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* According to a friend of mine from Québec, it's common for non-French speakers to pronounce "poutine" as "putain". One means fries with gravy and cheese curds. The other means whore.
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* According to a friend of mine from Québec, it's It's common for non-French speakers non-French-speaking Canadians to pronounce "poutine" as "putain". One means fries with gravy and cheese curds. The other means whore.
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* This troper's middle school Chinese class had a lot of fun thinking up entertaining meanings for phonetic translations of current politicians' names. Among other things, we came up with Ao(4) ba(1) ma(3) for Obama, literally meaning "obscure dumb horse".
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** Though that advertisement reading (in Dutch) "Mama, die, die, die" was pretty odd.
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* Bill Clinton was once giving a speech to a Chinese crowd. He opened by saying "hello" in Chinese, ni(2) hao(3). Unfortunately, he pronounced it ni(4) hao(4), coming up with "you are barking". Nobody had the heart to correct him.
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* This troper's middle school Chinese class had a lot of fun thinking up entertaining meanings for phonetic translations of current politicians' names. Among other things, we came up with Ao(4) ba(1) ma(3) for Obama, literally meaning "obscure dumb horse".
