I used to think one word in English was another word in another language.
I.E.- cat might mean hair
I would shout random words at my sister thinking I was yelling at her in French. ::shakes head::
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that foreigners' ears translated English words to their own languageAnon
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - I used to believe that the words Angliphile and Francophile were related to the word paedophiles.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- When i first saw the word "Czech" somewhere, i pronounced it "siz-ETCH" in my head — Pachisu