What is your favorite bilingual blunder?

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answer:One of my anthropology professors told us a story about when she was in Italy. She was trying to catch a bus, but didn’t know where to do it, so she kept asking people in Italian, “Where do I catch the bus?”, and only getting looks of shock, horror and hilarity from Italian citizens. By about the tenth person who would just not help her, she asked the last person again, “Where do I catch the bus?” Only this time, the person looked at her and said, “Um, miss? You do know that you said ‘Where do I fuck the bus’, right?” I thought that was pretty damn hilarious.

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