language

I used to believe…

My mother used to teach (she's a teacher) at a school in Greece. A graduate from the school went to a university in America and when he told some girls he was Greek, she asked him something along the lines of, "So you speak Grecian? And do you still wear togas? Those sheet things?,". I wonder where she got that from.

I was about 6 and my mum and I were on our way home from the movies. Well, it was pretty late, and as we passed a store, I saw a sign in the window that read "Store Hours..." I read it aloud "Store WHORES". Well, that's what I thought it was. Needless to say, my mum made me promise never to repeat it again

I used to believe…

When I was about 5, I was in the car with my mum and I told her that I knew the "F" word. Worried, she took a deep breath and said "What is it?!?" I proudly replied "Fat!"

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My last name is Adams, so when I first heard my parents use the expression "Up and at 'em," I thought they were saying "Up and Adams," which was a special expression just for our family. According to my logic, people who weren't named Adams couldn't use that expression, and therefore would just have to say "Get up," or whatever, because they weren't as cool as us. ;) My parents thought that was so funny, they actually started saying "Up and Adams" instead of the real expression, lol.

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When I was in kindergarten, I thought "blast-off!" was the same as "zero," because I saw a sketch of a rocket launching on Sesame Street. So, when we practiced counting backwards out loud in school, I'd say "blast-off!!!" instead of zero. Neither the teacher nor my mother bothered to correct me, because they thought it was cute. :)

I used to believe that other languages were like codes and to learn a language you just had to work out what the code was (i.e. every English J translated to an French U, or something) and then you'd be set.

What a surprise I got when started leaning French when I was 11!

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WEll, this isn't exactly my belief, it's my friends, but still....

when my friend arthur was little, he called his mum the C word. he was amazed at his mothers reaction, as he thought that it ment 'twit'!

I was always the type of kid to want to show everyone what I knew. I was about 6 and I was talking to my mom and she called me one of those pet names that was still kind of insulting like "rump roast", so I thinking that I would make a come back would call her a w(hore).....thinking it was another way to say horse. OPPS! My bad.

I used to believe…

ok, here we go. no, i was not crazy...i thought that every number was a person. 1 was stuck up because it was the first number, 2 was in love with 1(because 1+1=2), 3 was crazy(idk why), 4 was humble, 5 was mean, 6 was fun, 7 was the most powerful one, 8 was kind, and 9 was smart. I also thought that 0 was the saddest number because it was refered to as nothing.

I used to believe…

From early childhood to about the age of 7 i really used to beleve that the word "woman" was a bad word. This is because the only time I heard anyone say it was when my father would sigh "I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS WOMAN!!!!" I felt that it was a bad thing to say about a girl.

I used to always believe that the word "garbage" was a curse. To me, the first syllable (gar) was okay to say but -bage was the curse part. I thought it was pronounced gar-Bitch. I know, kinda dumb.

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Me and my sister laughed for 45 minutes streight when we realized that it was WHAT_A_Burger not WaterBurger. I guess neither of us had ever looked up at the spelling on the sign, we just thought it was a stupid name that didnt make sense.

I am so glad that some of you were talking about how you thought numbers had different personalities. Here I was thinking that I was the only one.

I always thought that 8 was a mean number. In order to understand, you'd have to see how I added nine to another number that was less than ten.
for example: 9+3=12
First, I'd look at the three and subtract one from it which is two. Then, I'd place a one in front of it.
So I always thought nine was so generous for only taking away one, but 8 was mean because he took away two. Somehow seven and lower didn't end up being mean.

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when mi sister was learning to talk, i was around 5 or 6 and i used to think that i was the only one who could understand her because a lot of people were like 'what did she say?' and i'd be all "well, that she's hungry, duh!" but aparently, mi parents and friends could understand her too

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when my sister was learning to talk (lemme tell you, she talked A LOT) and most kids think that l-m-n-o-p is one word (elemenopee) but mi dad started to notice that my sister included k so it was kelemenopee. so then i made up a definition for it. i told people that kelemenopee ment the same as jiberish. even now, almost 10 years later, i sometimes use it instead of jiberish.

I used to believe…

As a French, when I was young, I thought every body spoke French at birth, and that people in other countries had to learn another language very early. I felt pity for them, and I was so proud for myself! This belief was supported by the fact that the first language the speakers use in the Olympic Games (on tv) is French : it's why I thought it was the first language at all.

i used to believe that ''alice in wonderland'' was actually called ''allison wonderland''
i thought i was just a story about some girl named allison. how boring