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November 22, 2002

Author:   Heide Cassidy  
Posted: 2/18/2004; 9:30:29 AM
Topic: November 22, 2002
Msg #: 201 (top msg in thread)
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Language Struggles
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

The most hysterical thing happened at our Dutch lesson this evening. Our instructor had asked us to prepare a brief paragraph in Dutch about ourselves. "My name is... I'm from..."  etc. Well, my paragraph was relatively simple and straight forward. Mark, on the other hand, has a little translator tool at work that allows him to play around with some of his sentences and get creative! On this particular day, he had been using that tool quite a bit.

He was reading his paragraph to our instructor and at the end of it she just cracked up  hysterically laughing. What Mark had been trying to say is that his favorite food is junk food,... but something was lost in the translation and what he said was, "I like eating out of garbage cans!"

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