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Just curious.
What is the worst mistake you've made while speaking a foreign language?
I am male and told someone in Spanish that I was pregnant. (It is easy to do. Don't condemn me.)
I also asked a waitress if she was lactating.
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Hmmm, listen to a drinking buddy for the translation? Sounds like it!
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I told my Latin teacher to "Futue te ipsum!" which was not even close what I was trying to say! 
(Latin was not my best subject)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Hmmm, sounds like it was exactly what you intended to say!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Foreign language? Sorry I speak English so you'll need to explain to me what a "foreign language" is and why anyone would want to speak it.
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Isn't British English considered a foreign language? 
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My English tutor always said that British is the only form of English, and that American was an "accident, not a language" 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Ask him why programming languages use American spelling then?
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You are to learn the language, not the accident - even if the entire world does it wrong, that's not an excuse.
One of her favorite remarks is "no buts, or I'll kick yours". So no, not taking that risk 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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He obviously got it all wrong.
It's not an accident - it's evolution. It is obviously (unambiguously) the most fit of the two. As for the version he prefers? I believe it's pronounced "Extinction".
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She. Imagine a small big mother clucker/hen that breathes fear into mortal men.
It is an accident in the terms that it is a dialect made up out of English, German and Dutch, bastardizing words, simplifying writing to child-like and ignoring "stuff" that makes the language predictable (grammar?) English (and Dutch) is ironically built on exceptions to the rule and hard to learn to do right. Easy to learn the basics, harder to learn if you grew up without. Most that had access to Hollywood movies learned easily.
At the time, I felt English was the most accessible language, with almost every manual containing an English version. English united developers, like the Academics hoped Esperanto would unite Europe. German is unhelpfull, as it contains lots of non-ASCII characters.
128 characters to rule them all. 64 to the Kings of Elves, 32 to the Kings of Dwarves, 16 to the Kings of Mankind.. and 16 stolen by some little brat before they could be infused.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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A good parallelism to tender unto your tutor, when he complains about American English.
From Khalil Gibran[^] "What of the cripple who hates dancers?"
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She.
And I dare not collide great minds, I may not survive. And as a cripple, I still dance 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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To quote Oscar Wilde: "Two nations divided by a common language"
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Sorry I speak English so you'll need to explain to me
Total misuse of cause-effect, in my opinion.
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I once asked a Spanish waiter for the "gay boy", instead of the bill.
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I avoid the issue altogether by refusing to learn a 2nd language. Because 'murrica.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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In my experience, even English is a foreign language for many Americans (and I don't mean the immigrants).
Ad astra - both ways!
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You must mean people who only speak one language but speak it with expected 2nd language fluency?
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I avoid the issue altogether by refusing to learn a 2nd language. Because 'murrica.
Like there was ever any risk of anyone misunderstanding a well-armed Texan's intent... 
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I told a french bakery not to 'f*** the bread'.
Tranché, to slice, Tronché, the f***.
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