A childhood belief about foreign languages

I´m portuguese and at the age of 6, when my teenage aunt was listenning to the BEE GEES, i used to believe that Howdeepisyourlove was one single word in english, that would mean something, who knows?!
Later on ,when my english skills improved, i felt very foolish. I still laugh whenever i hear that song. By the age of 12, although my english was better, i still couldn't capture what Frank Sinatra meant by I get a kick out of you.
Many years later in our twenty's, my sister's boyfriend (not quite as good in the english department as ourselves) thought she was breaking up with him, when she wrote that in a postcard ...