this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
86 points (88.4% liked)

BestOfLemmy

7525 readers
2 users here now

Manual curation of great Lemmy discussions and threads

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
dragontamer
[email protected]
86
[email protected] shares the time they realized their friend misheard a saying (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/bestoflemmy
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

@[email protected]

A friend of mine is a non-native English speaker. He teaches at an elementary school and works with 'English as a second language' students. He casually mentioned that he always tells his students to take a 'horse bath' in the bathroom sink after recess if needed. He was traumatized when I told him that he'd misheard that phrase for his entire adult life.

all 7 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The story they replied to is also hilarious. “Showering on hard mode” lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I second the autism comment of the gp. The sensory issues are real.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The...Generic Poster? Gangsta Poster?

[–] bus_factor 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought my English was decent, but I'm having a really hard time figuring out what he misheard to get to "horse bath".