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In high school I went with my German class to Germany for a 6 week stay with various families. One of my schoolmates bought a bundled food item in an American
by rrauenza 7y ago
In high school I went with my German class to Germany for a 6 week stay with various families. One of my schoolmates bought a bundled food item in an American store prominently labeled “Gift Pack” to present to his family.
The foreign family was a little ... perplexed (or maybe just amused) because in German “Gift Pack” translates to “Poison Pack.”
- DoreenMichele 7y agoMy parents met at a party. My father's German was so bad that my mother asked someone what language he was speaking. She spoke High German and when she says Ich, it sounds like Isch. When he said it, it sounded like Ick. He learned his German talking to farmers and it was heavily accented. She spoke no English at that time. So they spent their first few years together speaking half in German, half in English. One day he comes home and tells her "I have a gift for you" where the entire sentence is in German except the world gift (Ich habe ein gift fur dir). My mother was all "Why the hell would you want to poison me? What the hell have I done to you?"