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.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Lifestyles Ideas Management - Plastic tubes became prostitutes
Posted by Anne at Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Labels: Lifestyles Ideas Management #200

