Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Plastic tubes became prostitutes

In the Jackie Chan movie Shanghai Knights, a leading supporting actress said “abundant” when she meant “abandon”. Then there’s the ad on TV where a hunk flexes his biceps, triceps and quadriceps pointing here and there and saying, among other things: The badroom is over there!”
A radio ads where the advertiser thanks you for all your years of dedicated and faithful patronage. “ Thank you for your lawyer support,” the ad says. The advertiser that you have supported loyalty is not a law firm. The Jim Croce’s “I’ll have to say I love you in a song” that a restaurant played them from a CD. “Every time I tried to tear you the words just came out wrong,” you can hear the female singer trying to tell you.
A few mispronunciations here and there give us a good laugh now and then at some else’s expense. A classic example Lianhe Wanbao reported on Saturday that a woman made a call in response to a job ad. The person who picked up the phone at the other end told her the job involved “plastic tubes” What she heard, instead, was “prostitutes”.
Adapted from Roland Kow.