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Default Vomiting after ingestion, and how to do so?

On 25/08/2020 11:35, NY wrote:
"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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I first realised that I shouldn't *always* believe everything they
said when
a new French teacher taught us the year after I started learning
French. The
first French teacher had told us that the French for "curtains" was
"drapeaux", whereas the correct word is "rideaux". "Drapeaux" means
flags.
The new teacher has one of those "Hmmm. I shall have to have words
with Mr
previous teacher" moments...


On my first holiday in France I manged to ask for a loaf of Champagne.
The baker laughed her head off then gave me a pronounciation lesson.


That's better than the typical Parisian's response which is to feign
complete ignorance of what you are trying to say, instead of trying to
work with you to work out what you want.

The other year when we were in Hamburg, my wife fancied crepes, so we
found a stall in the Christmas market that was selling them. The woman
didn't speak English (one of the few that didn't - I'm ashamed to say
that in general their English was a lot better than my German). My wife
wondered whether they did lemon-juice and sugar. "Sugar" and "juice", I
knew ("Zucker" and "Saft"), but WTF was the word for "lemon"? "Limon"?
No. "Ein gelbes Frucht - etwa zehn Centimeter lang" (a yellow fruit,
about 10 cm long) did the trick. "Ah, Zitrone!" she cried with glee. At
least I didn't have to mime a "sucking a lemon" face! Sadly she didn't
have a Jif lemon, after all that. But I won't forget that word now.


So the Germans are as bad as the French, who call a lemon "un citron",
i.e. any citrus fruit.

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