> The author greatly underestimates the native speakers potential for screwing up song lyrics I think what's interesting is how it's often possible to trace a

> The author greatly underestimates the native speakers potential for screwing up song lyrics I think what's interesting is how it's often possible to trace a mistake back to a word or idiom in the speaker's native language. For example, a poster elsewhere in the thread pointed out how ABBA confuses 'fun' and 'funny', which can be explained by there existing words in Swedish that mean both things.