Language bloopers!!! (fwd)

[Paul A. Klanderud]

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>>1. What has this to do with Slavic and East European languages and
>>   literatures?
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>>2. Unfortunately we who are not native speakers of English have to
>>   use English as a lingua franca, and in so doing cannot help
>>   producing from time to time sentences that are funny for native
>>   speakers. Perhaps you would like to have all hotel instructions
>>   and menus in Finnish, Hungarian or Dutch only in those
>>   countries?
>>Jouko Lindstedt
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>Oh, c'mon!  Isn't our field touchy enough as it is without us taking
umbrage at as innocuous a message as the language bloopers (for that matter,
I almost wrote "innoculous...").
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>When I worked as a Russian to English translator, we used to post a list of
our own bloopers.  And in an effort to avoid a haughty English-language
"ethnocentrism," I add a Russian blooper of a friend:  wishing to say "all
encompassing" -- vseob"emliushchii -- he mistakenly replaced the "m" with a
"b"....
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>Remaining a humble servant,
>Paul Klanderud
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