Reminds me of the guy who was very enthusiastic about being a proud "racist" turns out he just liked fast race cars

Happened in my high school bio class too!

When I was learning Spanish, I once said that I was pregnant (emberazada) instead of embarrassed, also I told a coworker to go in the closet and jack off, instead of put on his jacket. It happens

Take some time to learn English with your girlfriend! Ask her to speak to you in more English and when you feel confident, explain to him that you have been practicing English and crack a joke that hopefully there won't be any more mix ups like that :)

Changing fam is not an option but changing your friends is.

The key to calling in sick when not being sick is to show up to work when sick, and ‘tough it out’. That way, when you DO call in, no one can question you, because that must mean you must be REALLY sick.

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If your actually sick of course it isnt... if your just faking it to get out of work ya it's a dick move.

Calling off if you’re sick is not a dick move mate pull your head out your ass

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The mistake isn’t shameful, but the fact that didn’t get laughed off is. People can be so miserable sometimes

Let this be a lesson you won't soons forgets

Good. Get new friends. If they really felt like this, they shouldn’t have communicated with you like adults.

I mean, were you wrong though? Lol

I bet he was muy embarazado by the whole thing

I started working in a cheese factory out of high school and there are a lot of Spanish speakers there, I had some experience from Spanish class and working in a restaurant. I had just got done reading Shadow of the Giant and didn’t realize/remember that pequeño (used in the book - it’s very good btw, part of the Enders Game series) means little one(boy). They were surprised when I spoke a bit of Spanish and asked if I knew it well so I responded with “ehh, pequeño mas” or something to that effect, got a good laugh from the 6 other people on the line, then they corrected the mispronunciation. I was a bit embarrassed obviously but I had to laugh as well.

Language is fun and trying to communicate between different languages, people and cultures is what makes us human.

To be fair, English is really hard and a mistake made will be forgiven and prob laughed about later

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Cobra Chickens.

Hahaha. Seriously, dude, it shouldn't be a big deal. Even native English speakers fuck up pronouncing words.

I have a Colombian friend who speaks English very well, but still gets a few words wrong, usually by stressing the wrong part. so I'll correct her to spare her an experience like yours.

Also - a lot of us just take into account an accent, and learn to consider what the person meant from context.

This! It was a failure in their reaction. If I'm speaking to someone and I know English isn't their first language, I'm not going to be a dick if they mess a word up!! Hell, even if English WAS their first, I won't be a dick lol.

yes, typo fixed, thanks!

I love how they went right to that when you didn't even mention smoking in your post. Everybody is an armchair doctor, smh. Hope you're feeling better, man!

As an American, if someone made the equivalent mistake in English (“I want to eat cock”—that is, male chicken), I would expect the same sort of reaction to occur. Nobody would take it as a literal request, absent some very specific context clues.

The problem for OP is that the dad may be sensitive to this sort of thing because it is actually possible that OP meant what he said—it’s not like it’s unheard of for someone to mention a celebrity and someone else to bring up that celebrity’s problematic or criminal history. And the dad wouldn’t necessarily have put together it was a translation issue.

Oh definitely, but end of the day it's your job and still shitty of you if you skip work while knowing it will make it harder for others when your not really sick.