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An example of what I mean:

I, in China, told an English speaking Chinese friend I needed to stop off in the bathroom to "take a shit."

He looked appalled and after I asked why he had that look, he asked what I was going to do with someone's shit.

I had not laughed so hard in a while, and it totally makes sense.

I explained it was an expression for pooping, and he comes back with, "wouldn't that be giving a shit?"

I then got to explain that to give a shit means you care and I realized how fucked some of our expressions are.

What misunderstandings made you laugh?

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[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 65 points 3 weeks ago (22 children)

I made this comment about a year ago: https://midwest.social/comment/6247683

"A friend of mine is a non-native English speaker. He teaches at an elementary school and works with ‘English as a second language’ students. He casually mentioned that he always tells his students to take a ‘horse bath’ in the bathroom sink after recess if needed. He was traumatized when I told him that he’d misheard that phrase for his entire adult life."

[–] jplate8@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)
[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)
[–] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Bruh .ml censores the urls too

a screenshot of wikionary saying "Wiktionary does not yet have an entry for removed bath."

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Wow, that's insanity. I don't particularly like the word, but come on.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

The censor hits any substring, rather than trying to heuristically guess whether the substring is being used as a slur or not, it assumes users are smart enough to pick up on the context.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

pathetic ass instance

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