Hello everybody,
Watching you all practice to speak english, make me a little bit "minder". Here, we are pushed to write, not speak, so our mistakes will be very easy to be seen. But anyway, this is a very good chance to practice. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I have a funny experience in speaking english with japanese. Speaking english in a non-english speaking country, makes me look "more" than the other, eventhough I swear that my english is still very poor.
Sometimes, my japanese friend ask me if they get trouble with their english. Someday, someone ask : Ikawati-san, what is the meaning of "erection" ?
"What ?!" I was shocked of asked that question.
"What is the meaning of "erection" ? he replied.
"please give me a longer sentence for example" I asked.
Then he replied," Government held a general "erection".. bla..bla..."
Woow.... that's not "erection", but election. ha..ha..
So, we are lucky to be able to pronounce better than japanese.
That's small mistake, but has very different meaning.
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Posting by Zullies Ikawati, 13 September 1999
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its good story, it was happened to me ago, but with difference story but with the same point, that is Miss communication, lol
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