I used to think that you could never count to 100 because 90 sounds so much like 19 which meant that ou would simply continue to loop from 90 back to 19 in a never ending cycle. I also convinced my friends this was true.
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When I was about 8 I had never heard a foriegn language before so I thought that when it finally did happen the sounds of their language just wouldn't register so all I would hear is buzzing.
I used to believe that "priceless" meant the same thing as "worthless". I was quite confused when a TV show mentioned that the fossils in a museum were priceless. Surely, those fossils must be worth SOMETHING...
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when i was three i saw a movie where a man was kidnapped, and as the nappers were running away his friend yelled "BASTARDS!" So, i assumed that bastard ment kidnapper and once i was playing dolls with my 12 year old cousin and she took my doll and i said "you are a stupid and mean bastard!"
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When I was about two years old, I would always ask my mom to read me this particular book. I thought it had great stories in it and for a really long time, it was my favorite book.
Come to find out, it was a picture book. No words at all. I guess it's a testament to my mom's great storytelling abilities, but it still makes me feel like I was lied to.
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When I was little, I had this poor habit of repeating every angry thing that I heard on TV because I thought it would make me sound cool. For example: "Mommy, what the hell is that?" "Oh, I didn't wanna come to this stupid place anyway." "Everybody SHUT UP!!!!!" "Will ya knock it off already?" Oh yeah, I heard a lot of this stuff from my dad too (not bad language really, but a lot of the above). My parents would slap me up and down for saying it, and of course never tell me why it was wrong.
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When I first learned about French, I thought that every word in English would be the same in Freanch, except 'le' or 'la' would be in front.
Not long after my discovery, I met a girl named Larissa. I had never heard such a funny name before and assumed that it was French (it's actually Russian). That night I looked in my dictionary and found that Rissa means 'the genus Laridae'.
Genus is a species, and Laridae is the scientific name for 'gull' as in the kind of bird.
From then on I thought that my friend turned into a seagull every night and would turn back into a little girl in the morning so she could go to school.
I used to think that whenever I heard (or read..) someone say 'Nuff said. I thought that it meant that someone named Nuff said it. I used to think "Wow, this Nuff guy must be really popular and smart!"
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When I was seven, I was in swimming lessons. I was getting changed back into my street clothes in my 'cubicle' when I saw the f word written on the wall.
I thought F*ck was a funny name for some kind of mushroom.
I repeated it until I was scolded by my parents and my sister and we got out of the building asap. I finally learned that f*ck meant something radically different than a mushroom.
I used to belive that english was the "default" language and that all other languages were made up for fun. I used to think people with British accents were speaking a new funny language!
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I used to think that "pussy" only meant being a wimp, my mom was real mad when i called her one and had to explain it to me.
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When I was little, I still mixed up my words.
One day, I walked up to someone and said, "Hello! I'm a terrorist!" ...I meant "tourist"! OH I was wrong!!! lol
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You know how you call someone stupid a squirrel? well I was about 2 or 3 and i was in the backseat of our car while we were driving down the road. i dont know what happened, but my dad said to my mom, "I can't believe they let that squirrel drive!" (a person who couldnt drive well) and my mom has told me that i said "mommy! i want to see the squirrel driving a car!"
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Ok. I used to think "fudge" was a swear!
I saw this random movie when I was very little. This boy said a swear, the f word, and back then, I didn't know they cut it out. I couldn't hear it, but a woman called his mother and told her that her son said, "fudge".
Then... the mother put soap in his mouth! I was horrified! I didn't say "fudge" for a VERY VERY long time...
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i believed that when i was playing hide-n-seek everyone said ollie ollie oxen free. i just found out they were saying all the others in free.
I used to believe that knock knock jokes were always funny and you could make them up out of any words. My favourite that I made up was:
Knock Knock
(who's there?)
door handle
(door handle who?)
Cat.
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I always accidentaly used to say "shitty shitty bang bang"
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I always thought that since babies could not talk proper English, they talked Japanese and babies from Japan talked English.
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When I'd first get home from work, I'd bring in the mail and seem if there was a letter fromauntsusan. My daughter picked this up and began to call my sister Mant Susan
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When I was young I thought that 100 years ago everybody spoke the same language, and the languages we speak now were invented for wars to protect our secrets against other nations.