language

I used to believe…

Growing up in Germany and not understanding any other language when I was young I used to believe that the "Long Vehicle" signs on lorries meant that that was the country they were actually coming from.

I used to believe…

My childhood friend told me that his father had said the phrase "like so" and then admonished my friend to never say those words because it was a swear. Later, I watched an instructional TV show about oil painting and the instructor repeated the swear over and over. it was the dirtiest show I had ever seen! Later in life I realized that the phrase my friend heard was "___hole"

I used to believe…

When I was little I thought that I had forgotten a letter of the alphabet somewhere between G and L and that unless I could remember what it was no one would be able to spell anymore.

I used to believe…

Because I learned to play the piano at such an early age, I thought the alphabet only included the music alphabet, 'ABCDEFG'.
Needless to say, kindergarten was quite alarming.

I used to think that an episode was an episoda, and that it was a kind of soda that made you sick when you drank it (epi meaning EPIdemic). I got upset when somebody was talking about that funny episode of Spongebob, thinking that they were jerks to think that Spongebob with a disease was funny.

I used to think that the alphabet was one big word and that it was pronounced as one huge word. I thought that it was one of the most famous words and that someone wrote a song about it because it was so great

I could not figure out how one could feel sorry for *themselves* (it just seems so circular) until one day it hit me that that's what I was doing. I think of that often now, whenever I'm feeling sorry for myself.

I used to believe…

whenever adults used to say "the king was overthrown" i would picture in my head that they actually picked him by his clothes and threw him out of the window of the castle. and i would take other words literally too but thats just the first one i remember

I used to believe that the word 'caterpillar" was the big trucks that were used for road works....not a brand!

I used to think that the only language God knew was English. I was very happy to be American instead of some other ethnicity, because I thought if I was, God wouldn't understand my prayers!

I used to believe…

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 ...

I used to believe…

When I was young I always used to get the words "prodigy" and "prostitute" mixed up. And my older brother, after a piano lesson wanted to show off too me and out parents. When he was done, we all clapped and I blurted out " Well arent you just a child prostitute!"

I used to think people on the West Coast of the US were the only people in the world without accents. If you went a little bit further east, everybody had Texas accents, and if you went to the East Coast, everybody had New York accents. I thought Midwestern people and East Coast people must be real jealous of the West Coast people, because we were the only normal ones. I sure was enlightened back then, huh?

I used to believe…

When I said the alphabet, I thought "LMNOP" was one letter, pronounced "elemenopee".

I also thoguht that X and S were the same letter, so It didn't matter if I mixed them up in the alphabet song, which I did alot.

I used to believe…

At Christmas when we heard the poem The Night Before Christmas, the one with the guy who got up and saw santa and all... well anyway there was a part where it was describing santa with his stomach that shook like jelly and all, and they said that he "turned with a jerk" and I thought that teh poem had a curseword in it, and that it said santa was a jerk.

I used to believe that if you lived in America you spoke "American", and if you lived in England you spoke "English", so everytime someone said we spoke english I always said "No, we speak American!!"