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28.06.2007, 18:23
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I'll start: TWARF
I interpreted this as tw@ but it was meant as dwarf.
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28.06.2007, 19:57
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Are you just talking about spoken gaffs? Here are a couple of spelling gaffs I've spotted:
An epilation "clinic" in Zurich has ads in the window with the tag line:
"You have nothing to loose but your hair."
Or - a gentlemen's garment shop on Kreuzplatz: when it first openend had a large sign:
"CLOTHS & SHOES" - It has since been changed into another name...
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28.06.2007, 20:15
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DIZZERTwhen saying Dessert. Drives me nuts.
DC
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28.06.2007, 21:20
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My partner,bless her cotton socks has:-
Dstzwolf - supposed to be dwarf.
She also called me (in Swinglish) retarded for retired....on second thoughts  .
Her favourite(although it does not come out wrong) is referring to me as an "island monkey". She and her Swiss friends think this is THE way to insult UK folks and is incredibly funny ...it seems.... and this from a rock hobbit!  |
28.06.2007, 22:27
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"Hello together"
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28.06.2007, 22:31
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wictory, wersion...ect.
Pretty much all the v's come out as a w. I wonder why that is.
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28.06.2007, 22:47
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| Quote: | |  | | | wictory, wersion...ect.
Pretty much all the v's come out as a w. I wonder why that is. | | | | |
"The wiews of the walley were amazing."
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28.06.2007, 23:12
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Life in concert...
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29.06.2007, 00:07
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| Quote: | | | | | "Hello together" | | | | | Drives me nuts - all i want is ask if i can i have my hello as a separate line item....
And also
_ simpathic/sympathetic as in nice (Frankfurt, for example is not a sympathetic town, no pun intended for the Frankfurters, and my my mother is a very simpathic lady)
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29.06.2007, 08:42
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| Quote: | | | | | wictory, wersion...ect.
Pretty much all the v's come out as a w. I wonder why that is. | | | | | It's the same with the "th" sound in English. Comes out a "D" or "T"
Next time you're with some Swiss friends, try getting them to say:
"Thirty three thousand feathers on a Thrushes feathered throat"  |
29.06.2007, 09:08
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Don't know if this exactly fits in this catagory but I was just sent a flyer for cool kids fashions where the girls 4-14 clothing range is emblazoned with ' EAGER BEAVERS'
now am I the only one to find this slightly inappropriate ????????? Do people know what I am talking about?
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29.06.2007, 09:15
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IfI should list the crimes against the French language I come across in English language media... |
29.06.2007, 09:27
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Every year I wonder if I am the only one who finds the BLUE BALLS FESTIVAL in Luzern hysterically funny ... |
29.06.2007, 09:35
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| Quote: | | | | | Drives me nuts - all i want is ask if i can i have my hello as a separate line item....
And also
_ simpathic/sympathetic as in nice (Frankfurt, for example is not a sympathetic town, no pun intended for the Frankfurters, and my my mother is a very simpathic lady) | | | | | This is a French thing. I think you are confusing it with solely negative connotations, such as compassion, or to imply sympathy for another's sorrows or troubles. Whereas it is actually a general kinship with another's feelings, no matter what kind.
In your example, I enjoy the notion that a place, object or person could reciprocate a sense of affinity. To not allow the word a broader scope is a mental limitation.
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29.06.2007, 09:35
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| Quote: | | | | | Every year I wonder if I am the only one who finds the BLUE BALLS FESTIVAL in Luzern hysterically funny ... | | | | | You're not... when I read about it for the first time, I couldn't believe my eyes. |
29.06.2007, 09:45
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| Quote: | | | | | IfI should list the crimes against the French language I come across in English language media... | | | | | Well.. it is French...
Down with Francophonie! Up the English! |
29.06.2007, 09:52
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my wife says all the time foreggen..instead of foreigner. there are some other words that i can't think of right now(:-
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29.06.2007, 21:11
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SHPAGETI --> i hate hearing it pronounced this way!
"Remember me" when it should be "remind me"
"Could you borrow me..." when it should be "Could you lend me..."
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29.06.2007, 21:16
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| Quote: | | | | | SHPAGETI --> i hate hearing it pronounced this way!
"Remember me" when it should be "remind me"
"Could you borrow me..." when it should be "Could you lend me..." | | | | | I'm always amused when my wife tells me that I should remember her. ;-)
The swiss often say "I have cold" instead of "I am cold". I'm always thinking that they're saying "I have a cold" and that they're feeling ill.
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29.06.2007, 21:27
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| Quote: | | | | | The swiss often say "I have cold" instead of "I am cold". | | | | | At least a little bit better than to translate "I am warm" word by word into German...
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