hehehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/...
so your greatest translation mistake?
i asked a woman for the local bakery and she thought i said brothel (in english)
When living in FranceI asked a 90 year old woman in a Casino supermarket where the strawberry jam was. However I had a brain freeze on the the word for jam, so remembering that jam is also known as a preserve - I used "preservatif" instead of "conserve" - i.e. asking for strawberry flavoured condoms...
i was taking my parents around pompeii.
i showed them some holes in the edge of the kerb where people would tie their horses up, which we started calling horse holes. a dutch passerby got very interested as she thought i was talking about whore holes. the tourists sure love the brothels in pompeii
I served for 6 months with the Czech army in Bosnia, as part of their integration with NATO.
The Czech word for goat is very similar to their slang word for breasts.
I spent 5 months commenting on how much I liked Bosnian women's large goats.
Most alarmingly, the Czechs took this in good faith and never questioned my sexual preferences.
A friend of mine
was driving in france when his car broke down. I can't remember why, but he decided he needed a tube to fix it with, so he flagged down a group of bikers and asked them for une pipe.
In Fez I asked a tax driver
if he knew where the Hotel Batha was, and he took me to a bathhouse. The hotel's name turned out to be pronounced Bat'ha.
there was that time in Turkey
when I meant to ask the way to station, but must instead have said 'please mug and rape me and leave me for dead in the gutter'
oh how we laughed at the cultural misunderstanding
many years ago
in Spain, whilst drunk, I insisted in asking for huevos instead of cervezas.
Quebec 1997
"I am looking forward to trying your special local whores. Yes, whores. Covered in gravy."
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NOM!
Sounds tasty.
In both interpretations.