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Old 01-10-2013, 01:29 PM #3
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Originally Posted by Zee View Post
I had a friend who didn't pronounce her umlauts or her z's properly and as a result accidentally told a colleague that she stepped in a ***** when she meant to say puddle... dangerous, dangerous language...

My ex tells a story about how a friend had gotten two little pug dogs (der Mops, the plural would be die Moepse, which is also slang for boobs...) so that worked out quite well when asking to see the two little pugs.....
Quite understandable, since

Pfütze {f}

Is one translation for puddle!
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