19 July, 2011

Linguistic goofs

Last week I wanted to tell someone in German that we bought our dog back in 2004, but I accidentally used the Dutch verb (gekocht) and proudly announced that we "boiled" her when she was only 8 weeks old.

The other day my brain short-circuited while I was switching back and forth between Dutch and German. I told one person that a boat crashed into some rocks and sank. Turned immediately after that to a German and repeated the sentence in German, but used the Dutch word for rocks, but that actually means "snot" in German. Talk about a maritime tragedy!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

LOL. You crack me up.

Lisa in Indy

Betsy said...

I'm glad I crack SOMEONE up! (Aside from myself, that is... ;-) )

anno said...

you crack me up, too!
--anno (who was just south of Indy)

Goofball said...

oh my gosh, I'm laughing tears in my eyes...

Kelly said...

Those are bRiLlIaNt!

milgwimper said...

OMG I am having a hard time reading this post to my husband.