Tumblr Thread: Bilingual Struggles Inspire Hilarious Fails

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May 2, 2021 5:00 PM EDT

The brain has a hard time hopping between languages. Inevitably, brain farts occur. What begins as a humorous enough Tumblr thread about when you can tell that a bilingual character was clearly written by someone who is not a bilingual person, evolves into an even funnier thread about the various blunders that can occur in the bilingual realm. For some more gold from Tumblr, check out this Tumblr thread about the wild cons that people were able to pull off just by having complete, unwavering confidence. 

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    Organism - mothman @LEVKAWA how to tell when a bilingual character was not written by a bilingual person 101 "Hola iQué pasa?" Lance said. "Uh...what?" "Ah, sorry. It's hard to switch back sometimes. What's up?" He corrected.
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    Rectangle - gunvolt im going to have a stroke prideling Instead try... Person A: You know... the thing Person B: The "thing"? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! "mutters under their breath Como es que se llama esa mierda... THE FISHING ROD
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    Font - artykyn As someone with multiple bilingual friends where English is not the first language, may I present to you a list of actual incidents I have witnessed: • Forgot a word in Spanish, while speaking Spanish to me, but remembered it in English. Became weirdly quiet as they seemed to lose their entire sense of identity. • Used a literal translation of a Russian idiomatic expression while speaking English. He actually does this quite regularly, because he somehow genuinely forgets which id
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    Font - Had to count backwards for something. Could not count backwards in English. Counted backwards in French under her breath until she got to the number she needed, and then translated it into English. • Meant to inform her (French) parents that bread in America is baked with a lot of preservatives. Her brain was still halfway in English Mode so she used the word "préservatifes." Ended up shocking her parents with the knowledge that apparently, bread in America is full of condoms. Defined a s
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    Font - • Was talking to both me and his mother in English when his mother had to revert to Russian to ask him a question about a word. He said "I don't know" and turned to me and asked "Is there an English equivalent for Hymn3maTnyecKNÉ?" and it took him a solid minute to realize there was no way I would be able to answer that. Meanwhile his mom quietly chuckled behind his back. • Said an expression in English but with Spanish grammar, which turned "How stressful!" into "What stressing!" Bilingu
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    Font - akkanbaby • 250d I speak French and Creole as mother tong because back in my island you just casually switched from one to another without even thinking about it. You have to keep in mind that Creole is a mix of a lot of different language. When I first moved in European France sometime I was just confused about which word was actually French word, which one was Creole or which one is actually use in an other language (I use the the world racoon who is English or the word maracuja who is
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    Font - HandsomeJill · 250d My German friends visited me, when I was at my parents' house in Ukraine. My parents don't speak German, my friends don't speak Russian, so I had to do casual interpreting all day. I must have been really tired at the end of the day: instead of translating what my friends said into Russian, I rephrased it in German without noticing. 13 ...
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