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We were all talking about embarrassing mistakes we've made in Japanese.
And one of my mates came up with the best embarrassing Japanese story I've
heard yet!
This friend wishes to remain anonymous.
My friend went into a shop and asked the shopkeeper if she had a map. At
once, the shop keeper looked utterly stunned and offended, and said
something like, "Nani?!" (WHAAT?!). So my friend repeated again, more
carefully, if she had a map. This time, she said "aaah...." in
understanding and gave him a map.
Well, my friend was wondering what he could have said that caused such a
reaction. So he looked in his dictionary, and suddenly realised the
reason.
The word for "map" in Japanese is "chizu." But the word my friend had
initially said was "chitsu." It's a completely different word.
My friend had asked the shop keeper if she had a vagina.
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