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When I was about 8 years old, I overheard my family talking about the increase in numbers of Lebanese immigrating to South Africa. Somewhere along the line I also hear the word Lesbian.
Not knowing the meaning of either word, I told classmates at school that one of my older brother's friends (a man) was a Lesbian. Got into real trouble at home when the school queried my conversation.
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In most magzines aimed at kids, they have sections, where they publish drawings, photos, poems, and other stuff that readers did. I didn't know you have to have your parents mail it to the magazine, so I had a drawing and I just stuck it in the magazine and waited for it to appear published on the page.
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In 1959 I had a class about menstruation.(They didn't call it a "period" way back then). I had never heard of it before. Then on TV they kept saying it over and over and I wondered why the men were talking about it. I asked my teacher..she watched and really listened to the news....she said they were saying Adminstration. I was very naive
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I used to believe that an oncologist was an "on-call-ogist"
I thought a "couple"(as in, 'a couple of towels') meant 3 or 4. My kindergarten teacher asked me to get some paper towels from the bathroom once, I asked her how many, she said a couple, I said so, 3 or 4 right, she said no, a couple means 2.
looking back, i should've known. I mean, 2 ppl going out r a couple, so a couple would logically equal 2.
btw, i know this isnt funny or anything but i dont have anything else
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When I was younger, I was playing with a friend who wanted to tell me a secret. She asked me to swear that I wouldn't tell anyone. I replied that I wasn't allowed to swear.
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When I was little and had learnt the alphabet, I used to think 'l m n o p' was one letter and i used to pronounce it like - ellemenohpee, and say it as quick as i could. Also because my name begun with M, I used to tell people to call me by another name, because M wasn't in the alphabet, because it wasn't important enough.
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When I was little, my mother convinced me that putting 'el' in front of a word made it Spanish. (El I el was el easiy el fooled!)
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when I was a little kid my mom would always say F--k I thought It sounded like truck so one day I had a huge fight with my friend so I said "Shut the truck up!" After a trip to the principal I had learned my lesson
I was having a conversation with my grandma one day, about history and things she historical events she lived through and whatnot, and she told me she was in a class (she was about 14) after JFK was shot and she couldn't understand why everyone was upset. She thought "assassinated" meant to win an award or was an honor.
I used to watch the Disney movie 101 Dalmatians constantly. At the part where Nanny calls Roger a "blooming hero", I couldn't understand her acccent and thought she called him a "bloomineero"--whatever that is.
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When I was about 10, I got my first tiny tiny tv in my room. Me and a friend were watching it one morning and it was the Jerry Springer Show and we were hooked! (I know! It was bad to watch that junk so young). After we saw like 5 episodes we would tie our shirts up all slutty and say every cuss word there was because we seriously thought it was cool. But we never did it in front of anyone but the two of us!
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My grandparents used to always tell their dogs to "shut up", so I thought that the term was only used for dogs. Then one day my mom playfully told me to shut up, and I told her, "I'm not a dog!"
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when i was younger i use to think you would say hillo instead of hello and hi. to this day i say it sometimes.
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When I was younger, I used to believe that 'n' came twice in the alphabet (L, M, N, AND Y, N, Z)
It took me a while to realize that it was 'and' and not 'N'
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When I was a kid, I thought there was a country where they spoke Pig Latin.
I used to beleive when ppl didn't talk (deaf ppl) they lost their voice and could never talk again!
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When I was about to go into preschool, my mom wanted to teach me the alphabet. One day as I was practicing my letters on a piece of paper, my older brother (he was about 13 or 14 at the time) told me that if you didn't make the line on your little k long enough, then the police would show up and send you to jail. I believed him.
I used to believe that the term "thing" referred not to any kind of object, but to a specific one which for some reason looked like a reddish, deflated balloon(especially in the context of "poor thing"). And when I heard the term "wits", as in "I've lost my wits" I pictured these as white plastic button-like objects.
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When I was a very young girl I talked a lot and people would make me feel bad by saying how much I talked and that I should talk less. My grandmother heard this and told me this... "Don't worry people who talk a lot never have bad breath because the germs can't live in a mouth that is always moving." I believed this and I always thought that the priest at my church had very bad breath so he must not talk alot. I then proceeded to tell him that he should talk more so his breath wouldn't stink so much. :( Needless to say I got in trouble.
