Comments on: You Got Your Pens Moving: Stories of Misunderstandings from the Matador Community

By: christine

christine — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:18:26 +0000

When I read these types of pieces, I always wonder about their counterparts in other countries. I’m sure more than a few of us have made into the stories of cultural slip-ups abroad!

By: Katie Hammel

Katie Hammel — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:27:11 +0000

Yes, we still paid. I think we were too stunned to do anything else. Of course, the minute we walked out we thought of a million other ways we should have reacted. But I enjoyed my consolation dinner – a fresh crepe awith a big scoop of gelato!

By: Ryukyu Mike

Ryukyu Mike — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:41:49 +0000

Love it. Keepum coming. I’m even Stumbling around stumbling stuff and that’s how I got here. Somebody HELP ME !

By: Carlo

Carlo — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:16:23 +0000

Katie, you still paid?!

Great job everyone! All are honorably skillful!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:33:49 +0000

In my mind, I was right there with Katie and her husband as the chef presented them with a giant piece of raw fish. Definitely laugh out loud material!

By: eileen

eileen — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:18:29 +0000

The whole “cock” among American English speakers is a classic. I had to nearly forcibly restrain a Bulgarian man from teaching a classroom full of Salvadoreans his clever use of the British word for “the husband of the hen,” as my students would say.

Great article. An endless source of entertainment!

By: neha

neha — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:43:32 +0000

Hahahaha! These were great! I loved the story from Japan.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:42:30 +0000

These are fantastic!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:58:28 +0000

This really did make me LOL! Especially the English classroom one…I taught adults in Brazil, we had quite a few misunderstandings like that. “Brazil has very beautiful bitches.” “Um…yeah, they do.” (She meant beaches, of course. Although both are true.)