Comical Mistakes When Speaking a Foreign Language

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Perikles: Interesting.
I have seen that use of "to be hot" in many websites (and I think I've seen it too in some printed magazines) as referring to something or someone attractive or interesting.
The title "What's hot and what's not" is often used in entertainment news and blogs. And I have also seen plenty of times sentences like "Johnny is hot", meaning the person they're talking about is attractive or popular.

By the way, in some old crime novels I have also seen "I'm hot" as "The police is looking for me".

[poli]

Hot has lots of meanings. I confirm to be hot means tener calor, and also
attractive, sexually aroused or sexually provocative, and suddenly popular. Hot stuff can mean stolen merchandise or someone like Megan Fox. A hot mess is someone who cannot get their life together.

[Caballero]

Originally Posted by Perikles

Both. Obviously I can only speak for my own social group, but I doubt whether it is generally recognized. As for teenagers, well, they haven't started to learn English yet.

But would it be understandable? If I went to England and said to someone "You're hohhhht" what would they say? "Yes, because I'm wearing a sweater."?

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by Caballero

But would it be understandable? If I went to England and said to someone "You're hohhhht" what would they say? "Yes, because I'm wearing a sweater."?

It depends on their age and sex. You would probably get either a punch in the face or a slap.

[Caballero]

Originally Posted by Perikles

It depends on their age and sex. You would probably get either a punch in the face or a slap.

So pretty much the same as here then.

[Luna Azul]

Originally Posted by Cloudgazer

Hay algo que tengo que compartir con ustedes, en particular con los aficionados del Batman.

Me gusta ver los dibujos animados para tener alguna práctica con español, y di con episodios de Batman doblados al español en línea.

Bueno, estaba viendo un episodio y algo raro se seguía pasando: los caracteres se seguían refiriendo a "la noche oscura." "La noche oscura" aquí, "la noche oscura" allí... --¿Cómo? --seguí preguntándome cada vez--. ¡Ni siquiera es por la noche!

Entonces, entendí.

La cosa radica en que hoy día un apodo que el Batman lleva es "The Dark Knight." Los dobladores debieron de oír este apodo hablado en alguna parte y pensar que las palabras eran "The Dark Night." Lo que deberían decir es "El Caballero Oscuro"...

HA HA HA HA HA

How very silly!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Perikles

[....] As for teenagers, well, they haven't started to learn English yet.

HA HA HA HA HA

[chileno]

Years ago back in the 80's I started to work as a photographer in Los Abgeles, and one of the first sessions I had was that of a baby. As I got into the apartment the mother, a mexican woman, warns me that probably the pictures will have to wait until another day, because "el niño está caliente".

Lo cubre le dije yo.

No, me dijo recién empezó y le puede durar días...dependiendo...

I didn't know what to say and she said something else, which I don't recall exactly, that made me understand that the baby had a fever


I took the pictures later in the week as he wasn't crying anymore.

[coffeecup]

haha when I went to Italy two years ago, one of my friends thought she was being very fluent and went around saying "sono eccitata!" whenever she felt excited. Little did she know that eccitata didn't mean what excited means in English.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by coffeecup

haha when I went to Italy two years ago, one of my friends thought she was being very fluent and went around saying "sono eccitata!" whenever she felt excited. Little did she know that eccitata didn't mean what excited means in English.

There you go.

Languages are fun, to say the least.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

@Perikles: Interesting.
I have seen that use of "to be hot" in many websites (and I think I've seen it too in some printed magazines) as referring to something or someone attractive or interesting.
The title "What's hot and what's not" is often used in entertainment news and blogs. And I have also seen plenty of times sentences like "Johnny is hot", meaning the person they're talking about is attractive or popular.

By the way, in some old crime novels I have also seen "I'm hot" as "The police is looking for me".

Bring the heat down on me. Means bring the law men down on me.
That gun is hot. Means the gun is stolen. Of course it depends on the context because once you shoot it it becomes physically hot heh. Also the range (shooting range) is hot means there are people firing weapons at the moment.

That car is hot. Could mean either it looks good or is stolen and depends on the context.