> So when I learn a language I don't even look up unfamiliar words if I can still guess the general meaning. This is the kind of thinking that led to a friend

> So when I learn a language I don't even look up unfamiliar words if I can still guess the general meaning. This is the kind of thinking that led to a friend of mine and his entire family, touring Germany, saying the word for "apple juice" whenever they meant to say "thank you". I'm not even kidding. Comic example in film: in the Oliver Reed film Hannibal Brooks, a misunderstanding leads one of the major characters to believe that elephant translates into english as "we're-here". There are several misunderstandings in translation between Australian Aboriginal languages and English.