Here's some funny stuff:
An American female student at the Univeristy of South Carolina was helping to host a group of students visiting from Australia. At that time in South Carolina, there was a popular dance among the young people called the "Shag". Unbeknownst to the American girl, in Australia "to shag" means to have sexual intercourse. At a beach party one night, the girl innocently approached a young Aussie male student and said, "Would you like to shag?" Amazed, the boy replied, "When?" The girl answered, "Now." Unable to believe his ears, the boy stuttered and asked: "Well ... where??" And, naturally, the girl replied, "Right here, of course." It took quite a few moments of great anxiety before the boy realized she was merely asking him to dance.
Walking along the Yzngtze River in Shanghai, China, a young Chinese man approached him and asked in English: "Do you want me to cut your face?" Happily, he soon discovered that the Chinese man was asking if he wanted him to cut out a silhouette of his facial profile!
The pastor of our local Lutheran church regularly receives messages from members of his congregation whenever they visit Norway. It seems there is a city there named Hell, and his church members who discover this fact delight in writing that they are "visiting Hell, and almost everyone here appears to be Lutheran!" As a postscript, the same pastor asked me, "Did you know that Adam was a Lutheran?" When I questioned how he knew that, he replied, "Only a Lutheran would stand next to a naked woman and eat an apple."
Laughably Confused Words
Why is English So difficult? Just consider these anomalies as pointed out by people like author Richard Lederer adn humorist Garrison Keillor:
1. We drive on parkways, and park on driveways.
2. There is neither pine nor apple in pineapple, and no grapes in grapefruit.
3. Why do we have interstate highways in Hawaii?
4. And what about those outdoor billboard signs that say "Learn to Read!" Just who are those signs aimed at?
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