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There's this girl at my girlfriend's school that doesn't speak english fluently. No matter how hard she's tried, Mazy can't get her to stop asking people, "Will you ride me home?" at the end of the day.

I know I can think of more. You?

Thats just mean laughing at her

Will you ride me home BWAHAHAHAHAHA er i mean its mean.

Or the British lady that was traveling with friends, and asked the husband to 'Make sure to knock me up in the morning'

We have variety of people at our school who speak English poorly, but most of it is in the form of pluralising verbs and things- nothing terribly funny.

My french teacher once had a student who lived in France for a period. One time, the student said to the family he was staying with, "Je suis en route," meaning "I'm on my way." However, he mispronounced it, saying "Je suis en rut" instead, meaning "I am in rut."

Another episode, this one occuring to the teacher herself. She was at a party and one woman asked her where she was staying. She pointed at her hostess and said "J'habite avec elle." That sounds like it means "I am living with her," but actually means "I am sleeping with her." The proper way to say it is "J'habite chez elle."

Alan Bolte wrote:There's this girl at my girlfriend's school that doesn't speak english fluently. No matter how hard she's tried, Mazy can't get her to stop asking people, "Will you ride me home?" at the end of the day.

I know I can think of more. You?

I can understand that. Many languages (including Russian) have no distinction between "drive" and "ride"

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

fgalkin wrote:

Alan Bolte wrote:There's this girl at my girlfriend's school that doesn't speak english fluently. No matter how hard she's tried, Mazy can't get her to stop asking people, "Will you ride me home?" at the end of the day.

I know I can think of more. You?

I can understand that. Many languages (including Russian) have no distinction between "drive" and "ride"

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Must you bring facts into a thread about laughing at people who are different!

A story opposite that of all the previous ones:

Many of our tech support people here are Indian students who work for a little extra cash. One day in the library I saw several of these tech support people crowded around a computer. Despite the fact that they were all shouting Hindi at each other, we (and I mean everyone in the library computer lab) could tell by the occasional accented computer-related term that the computer was completely screwed up. We also knew when they finally gave up on it when one of them yelled "FUCK!" at the top of his lungs. In the middle of the crowded library.

...Well I thought it was funny.

Mayabird wrote:A story opposite that of all the previous ones:

Many of our tech support people here are Indian students who work for a little extra cash. One day in the library I saw several of these tech support people crowded around a computer. Despite the fact that they were all shouting Hindi at each other, we (and I mean everyone in the library computer lab) could tell by the occasional accented computer-related term that the computer was completely screwed up. We also knew when they finally gave up on it when one of them yelled "FUCK!" at the top of his lungs. In the middle of the crowded library.

...Well I thought it was funny.

Now that was indeed funny.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

LadyTevar wrote:Or the British lady that was traveling with friends, and asked the husband to 'Make sure to knock me up in the morning'

Well that means the same here, so maybe she meant it.

Alternatively, she just said the wrong word.

justifier wrote:Must you bring facts into a thread about laughing at people who are different!

I believe the saying goes "Stop clouding the issue with facts!"

I do remember a classmate saying "God fuck my ass!" in frustration when he couldn't get his lab project to work.