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A collection of times that people struggled with languages. | Sophuckingoode @SophieRachael95 German man just came into pub and tried ask cutlery but ended up saying need some food weapons" and will now be referring them by nothing else

Funny Language Memes For All The Language Nerds

A quick Tumblr post appreciates riddles | teaboot love weirdly specific rules go with answering riddle. Like Have Two Eyes But Cannot See Am And answer's supposed be word 'iridescent' because 'two s' right, but like. Why can't answer be like guy with really bad cataracts. Someone wearing blindfold. My uncle's dog. Like why does gotta be deep teaboot have face but no eyes lips or nose am Slenderman. Next

A Quick Tumblr Post Appreciating Riddles

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A quick Tumblr post on kids' various learning struggles | fozmeadows Watching my toddler figure out language is fascinating. Yesterday were stumped he kept insisting there Lego winner" behind his bookshelf turned out be little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing word trophy he'd extrapolated word thing can win And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said Mummy s not rubbish s allowed be bottle meaning, effectively want this. Don't throw away But an adult ear, there's something

Quick Tumblr Post On Kids' Language Struggles

Funny and interesting English language moments | ace-nyctophyle any noun can become verb if don't care enough yupokaysuremhm This point is invalid unless use an example sentence ace-nyctophyle CAN SENTENCE WANT THANK yupokaysuremhm BEAUTIFUL mysterytinyfox see thats why love english ailithnight like velociraptor around my house at 2 morning. ace-nyctophyle GOOD not--be--tea-but-brit My headache makes want clothesline into wall enquires-state-building why do these make some semblance sense 9

Fun and Frustration with The English Language

funny weather forecast in different accents

Weather Forecast In Different British And Irish Accents

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Man misunderstands his girlfriend and ends up breaking up with her for no reason | r/tifu u/ManicSheep TIFU by temporarily breaking up with my Dutch Girlfriend after declaring my love M This happened about 7 years ago am South African and dating Dutch girl at time those who don't know my home language (Afrikaans) and Dutch are pretty similar. Linguistically speaking have about 70% overlap vocabulary (words) however meaning same word both languages sometimes mean

Language Misunderstanding Results In Accidental Breakup

Funny alternate terms for common english words, funny memes, random memes, stupid memes, dumb memes | Milk Cereal Sauce Water Snowman Blood

Alternate Terms For Everyday Crap 'Cause Regular English Is Boring

A customer's translation fail results in them repeatedly begging a bartender for nothing | r/tifu u/pzych_ TIFU by begging bar tender nothing M So this story happened about year ago, and requires some cultural context Ireland, there's been recent resurgence Irish language, and lot movement promote Irish speaking throughout countries. This resulted an Irish speaking bar being opened Dublin didn't grow up Ireland, so don't speak word Irish- but my best friend begging go with her this bar

Customer's Translation Fail Results In Begging Bartender For Nothing

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Guy misunderstands mom, thinks his family's in turmoil, learns otherwise | r/tifu u/throwawaysumtingwong TIFU by sucking Chinese M This happened pre-pandemic. So l'm (31M) 100% pure Chinese but really bad at They taught at school, but really shitty, like were learning kindergarten level Chinese High School speak (very poor) Mandarin and Hokkien this conversation, my mom speaking Hokkien and broken, mixed with English Hokkien. Anyway having breakfast with my mom she told Mom Chinese

Man's Translation Fail Results In Hilarious Misunderstanding

Cringey friend tries correcting actual Japanese grandma on her grammar | commented about this another group but thought would share. My wife is mixed Japanese. She speaking Japanese her grandma dining room while playing video games with friends next room whitest dude our group decided go there JUST tell these women they were using certain words wrong and their grammar incorrect and they should be using "wa" instead ga certain sentence remaining men living room took off our hats and wept

Cringey Guy Tries Correcting Grandma on Her Japanese

An informative Tumblr thread on actual meanings of figures of speech | dalekitsune phrase "curiosity killed cat" is actually not full phrase actually is "curiosity killed cat but satisfaction brought back" so don't let anyone tell not be curious little baby okay go and be interested world uwu

Enlightening Tumblr Thread On Meanings Of Figures Of Speech

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Funny wordy memes, bad puns | Kieran @KieranMSimpson common English mistakes mixing up there, their and they're -using wrong too or two -using apostrophes plurals -enslaving innocent people -putting commas wrong place | 90s Arsenal Soccer Club had player called David Dicks he injured Newspaper wrote"Arsenal play without Dicks coach upset so Newspaper changed headline read "Arsenal play with Dicks out record number women attended match. imgflip.com

Wordy Memes & Humor For The Cunning Linguists

Rude K Pop fan talks badly about the person next to them, unaware they speak korean | r/pettyrevenge Posted by u/thisisdrivingmebatty 1 day ago Bad mouth and assume don't speak language kill with kindness Obligatory on mobile sorry formatting am light skinned Latina American and lived Korea couple years during university and grad school, as my major Korean Interpretation and Translation. During my time Korea lucky enough attend music shows time time kpop uninitiated, music shows are free enter,

Rude K-Pop Fan Doesn't Know Fellow Fan Speaks Korean

A quick Tumblr post defends the English language | theaustinstollhaus people go off about English is worst language just wanna point out few things Our future tense requires only one word (looking at Spanish Words don't change meanings depending on tone (Cantonese don't live some bizarre Beauty And Beast world where give inanimate objects genders (romance languages, German)

Quick Tumblr Post Defends English Language

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Funny mistranslated shirts | back of a shirt that reads PIG IS FULL MANY MANY CATS | I LOVE CASIO Cash Alcohol Sound Intellectuals Omelet

Wonderfully Mistranslated Shirts

Man thinks he has lisp for years, and learns he's been mispronouncing the letter "s." | r/tifu Join u/sxmilliondollarman 17h TIFU by thinking had lisp my whole life 38 M Ssssso, where do ssstart? First obligatory this happened since forever ago present, but have now had crazy realization. My entire life l've been self conscious about speaking because my "lisp".

Man Mistakes Mispronunciation For Lisp For Years

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