Thread: Comical Mistakes When Speaking a Foreign Language
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Old March 11, 2011, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Sancho Panther View Post
LOL @ #4 and 5

Reminds me of a former lady colleague who used to love holidaying in Spain but was everlastingly moaning about amorous waiters and barmen pestering her. Then one hot day in Britain she came into the office where I worked and started complaining about the heat and finished by saying "¡Estoy muy, muy caliente!" I laughed 'a carcajadas' then said to her " For goodness sake Mandy, you can't say that, it means "I'm really, really horny".

Her face crimson she fled from the office, then it dawned on me that she'd probably been continually saying that to the waiters and barmen - poor girl!
So when the temperature is 100 deg. Farenheit and you're sweating like crazy, what are you supposed to say that would not be embarrassing in Spain or other Spanish speaking countries?
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