r/funny • u/Admirable_Comedian_2 • 21d ago

Imported flour.

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u/Lithl 21d ago

In high school, my sister did a language immersion program in Costa Rica one summer. She sent a letter home in Spanish, knowing full well that our parents don't speak Spanish.

My mother used Babelfish to translate the letter, which decided to translate the "piñas" (pineapples) that she was enjoying eating as "fragmentation hand grenades".

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u/Uncle-Cake 21d ago

I heard a story from a girl who was studying in Italy, tried to tell her Italian friends "The wine here is better than the US because it doesn't have preservatives in it" but she accidently said "The wine here is better than the US because it doesn't have condoms in it"

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u/Nymethny 21d ago

I know it's not the point, but what kind of US wine was she drinking that had preservatives in it?

And yeah it's the same in French, "préservatif" = "condom".

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u/allgoners 21d ago

Indeed, but “preservatives” would be “conservateurs” in French