When my mom(who is of german decent) would rush me for something(like getting dressed for school), she would say something like "Hurry up, you're gonna be late for school! Schnell, schnell!!"(which means "quickly". I thought she was saying "smell", so everytime she said that, i would smell my arm. I didn't know what she was really saying until i was 10.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when I farted, i could smell up all the stench before anyone else could smell it.— Tim
- If I had bad gas I would sometimes start to run as I farted to escape the smell. It didn't always work.— Sammy
- I used to think that my teacher lived at school until she came to school late one day. I was shocked!— Wow, you have a life?!
- I used to believe that I could smell when it was going to snow.
(I still can!)— sw - Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.— Isabel
- I used to believe that hairspray was made of grapes! =) Does't it smell grapey to you? XD— Jaime