A 45 year old male co-worker of mine thought I could translate a document from English to Arabic simply by changing the font to Arabic. This is absolutely true!
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I thought that the song "Hands off she's mine" by The English Beat was actually saying "Anton, she's my aunt"— Nate
- When I was eight, I thought my dad could translate what the birds were saying. I have no idea why.Anon
- I thought the word mailman was male man and it seemed dumb to me as aren't all men male?— andalite
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil