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My Italian phrasebook, printed much more recently than yours, has words and phrases for things one might say during sex. I've often wondered if I'm expected to

My Italian phrasebook, printed much more recently than yours, has words and phrases for things one might say during sex. I've often wondered if I'm expected to remember in the heat of the moment, or if I'm allowed a quick glance.

yamtaddle 4y ago
Now I'm imagining a comedy sketch in which two people who insist on trying to speak the other's language while out on a date end up in bed, but both with their noses in phrasebooks.
- bombcar 4y ago
  Even better if they're both in Paris, say, trying to speak French, and in the end realizing they both speak perfect English.
  - bmacho 4y ago
    No that would be worse.
philwelch 4y ago
Yeah, I have a couple of phrase books that have an entire section of negotiating your way through an entire hookup, with phrases at the end like, “I have an early flight”.
netsharc 4y ago
Everything2 has a list of those: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=everything2+when+having+sex+in&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=everything2+when+having+sex+in&ia=... Hah, even in Latin
- duskwuff 4y ago
  There's a bit of the Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook alive in E2's phrasebooks. The Parisian French and Quebec French translations have a rather different character from each other, for example...
- dredmorbius 4y ago
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