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On holiday in Spain last year my wife visited a small grocery shop attempting to buy butter. She speaks French but little Spanish, and (consequently) tried asking for "burro, burro...?" Very quizzical looks from the old dear behind the counter; much confusion on all sides. Eventually turned out she'd been trying to buy a donkey...

David

No, that is simply 'thankyou', iirc Kiitos paljon is 'thankyou very much'. Strangely, paljon is 'please' over the water in Estonia...

Peter

there was a reasonably succesful pop group in New Zealand called the Headless Chickens. They are called that since one their number went up to a lifeguard on a beach in Spain and tried to ask 'where is the toilet?' instead he was asking 'where is the chicken?' iirc a mixup between poyo and pollo.

Peter

On a school trip trip to France, one hapless individual kept going up to the waitress and asking for "chou-fleur" to put in his coffee. I have no idea how he got from lait to chou-fleur.

Christian.

i have an ex-boss, who swears blind, that his wife once shouted the length of a Calais supermarket -

'Ron - what's the french for Pate ?"

Quite - and in Italy you don't want to make the sign where the thumb and forefinger are made into a circle. It may mean that something is OK here; but there you would be suggesting that a person is an a**[*]hole.

.andy

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