Today, I found out that while on foreign exchange for over six months now, I have been pronouncing the word for "night" in German wrong. Apparently, this whole time, the way that I have been pronouncing it in German means "naked". This explains a lot. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out the German I've been learning for nearly a month is a dialect only spoken by people in a small area of the country. This means I'll need to re-learn most of what I thought I knew. FML
Today, I returned to Germany for a break from my studies abroad. I got lost while out for groceries, so I tried asking a guy for directions. I went totally blank and strained to think of the right words, prompting him to mutter about rude foreigners not bothering to learn the local language. FML
Today, I found out that I've been pronouncing "quinoa" wrong for years. FML
Today, I arrived in Germany for a summer-long stay. The family I'm supposed to stay with had said they spoke fluent English. They don't. I don't speak German. It's going to be a quiet two months. FML
Today, I learned that I've been saying a word wrong my whole life and all my friends have been too polite to correct me, when I found out that "Segue" and "Segway" are pronounced the same. FML
Today, I arrived in Austria. Within about an hour, I realized that I couldn't understand any "German". Turns out they have a totally different dialect here to anything I was taught in school. I'm here till May. FML
Today, I found out that my German wasn't as great as I thought it was. Trying to give directions to some German tourists, I tried to say, "I hope I don't get you lost." Turns out I actually said something closer to, "I hope I don't seduce you." FML
Today, I found out that I was moving to Germany. I'm going to be put back a year in school because of the system change. I also don't speak a word of German. Why? Because my mother wants to brag about this experience to her friends. FML
Today, I have learned a lot of "big" words from reading so much, but can actually only pronounce about half of them correctly. FML
Today, a German guy came into the place where I work. Eager to use the German that I'd learned from my immigrant mother and her family, I started a conversation. Things were going well until the term I grew up thinking meant "Africa" turned out to be racist, translating as "Ape Land." FML
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Top comments
WCARlover 35
Why would it take 6 months for someone to correct you? I can imagine you saying something like "last naked we went out to dinner" would make a person confused and then realize you meant night and would teach you how to say it correctly way before 6 months went by
BlackHawkSavior 28
I can just imagine OP asking, "Are we hanging out naked?"
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Comments (75)
heyalmao 13
Looks like you'll have some naked nights.
xLIGHTS_fml 23
It's a common mistake for Americans. I'm fluent but my dad is American and pronounced it that way until he was fluent too.
Futacy 30
I'm surprised nobody corrected you, I guess Grammar Nazi Germany is long gone.
Waschlappen 23
Aw, that sucks OP, but don't worry, people tend to let it go when it's a foreigner speaking, and those to words are similar. My German teacher in High School told us about a student who did something way worse at her final exam. She was suppose to talk about her spare time activities, one of which where shooting, but instead of saying 'Schiessen', she said 'Scheissen', which instead means shit. Very embarrassing.
UltJan 11
Good Night > Good Naked
BlubberKing 15
"See you tomorrow naked!"
Qualm 6
JFK once said he was a jelly donut during a speech in Germany so don't feel too bad.
NalaBaloo 13
Well, a "Berliner" is a person from Berlin as well as the pastry, so he wasn't wrong. ;)
Sora_McKain 36
Ich bin ein Hamburger?
HelenErutherford 18
I'm actually German and I know this phenomenon from personal experience. it's just one of those things you don't correct so you don't seem impolite but on the inside your laughing your ads off.
Thorn9000 17
good naked everyone, I'm going to bed.
Roxas_hearts 27
Dawn of the first Naked: 72 hours remain