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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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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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)
Dynamite73 25
Gotta add that phlegm bro lol
arun_678 10
"Good naked"
snappleshack 5
So easy to do, especially with Swiss German speakers. Don't worry-they would have understood what you meant! I made a similar goof with 'sex' and 'sechs' on exchange there, even after 3 years learning it.
night_roane 11
I just looked up the word for naked... and it looks almost exactly the same as the word for night. Is the difference just in the gutteral ch of nacht? because I was taught that it was basically a k sound.
LoudTyping 5
You know how people from the UK have a specific way of pronouncing the 'ch' in 'Loch Ness Monster'? That's how You say 'Nacht'.
LoudTyping 5
I kind of understand why nobody corrected You, especially if Your mother tongue is English. Most Americans/Englishmen/Australians/etc. find the 'ch' in 'Nacht' very hard to pronounce and as long as You pronounce it with a long 'a' instead of a short one, You should be fine and people will know what You mean even if You say 'Gute Naackt'. (I think. Not sure about Swiss accents.) Accents are a very interesting thing, plus they probably didn't want to be smartasses who correct You all the time. They probably thought it was endearing.
Berber260 14
This is funny. Anyway, I'm going to sleep, good naked guys.
Sora_McKain 36
Always ;)
otakupowers 7
How could you nacht get that right?
zaidthunder1 27
Are you a lady, OP? That makes a lot of difference.
epilepticloh 20
Being able to fluently speak German I find this amusing :) so sorry to hear OP,at least now you know
shinikageWolf 15
"Have a good naked, see you tomorrow" "It's the middle of the naked" "I didn't sleep very well last naked" Maybe they thought you were a nudist when you got home?