July 4th, 2009

Misadventures In Language

  • Jul. 4th, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Mechanical
Today my girlfriend was making lunch for us and it looked lovely. I asked her what she was making and she replied tarte au thon. She speaks quietly and my French is not perfect, so when I mispronounced this as tarte au con, she was a bit surprised.

It's natural when one is not fluent to inadvertently say the wrong thing, but referring to "tuna pie" as "cunt pie" was particularly unfortunate.

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