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What is it called when maglev trains derail? For example, "The train demagleved". That is sooo difficult to pronounce.
 
ImaginaryBloke said:
In Germany it is even worse. They call it "Handy", supposedly a loanword from English. I have no idea what it is called in Mongolia.
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'Handy', that could easily be mistaken for 'hankie' (short for handkerchief)..things could end up a bit confusing over there I imagine.
 
Try to pronounce "eany meany miney moe" backwards, then from below and from above. After all, a paper or a screen is two-dimensional. But pronunciation is one-dimensional.
 
ImaginaryBloke said:
Try to pronounce "eany meany miney moe" backwards, then from below and from above. After all, a paper or a screen is two-dimensional. But pronunciation is one-dimensional.
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Would that be 'moe miney meany eany' or 'eom yenim ynaem ynae'?
You lost me on the next bit.

could it be
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and then just imagine it the other way up!
 
I once saw a hamster that had the teeth of a wolf. I backed down and then I returned with a toothbrush warning "Wolfie" not to swallow it because plastics is toxic.
 
melissa* said:
Would that be 'moe miney meany eany' or 'eom yenim ynaem ynae'?
You lost me on the next bit.

could it be
e
o
m

y
e
n
I
m

y
n
a
e
m

y
n
a
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and then just imagine it the other way up!
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Looks much better. I will call Stockholm right away.
 
ImaginaryBloke said:
I once saw a hamster that had the teeth of a wolf. I backed down and then I returned with a toothbrush warning "Wolfie" not to swallow it because plastics is toxic.
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I have a relative by that name. He was Wolfie when he was a kid, but we had to keep in mind to call him Wolf when he was grown up.
 
Jet said:
Hahahahaha...I love it @Night Owl!

Other fun Mongolian mix ups I've had are with words that are one letter off resulting in me once complimenting a woman on her beautiful testicals, and another time telling a group of people how I once ate human eyeballs.
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Hahah! I guess at that point they point at you and laugh as you leave, saying their equivalent of "Foreigner"?
 
melissa* said:
@owl I'll give you a synopsis, one guy wakes up in the boot of a car, another on the roof of the house, one of them has their undies on over their pants,...there's chaos and debris everywhere - like a lot of stuff littered around everywhere. The third guy wakes up next to a pool as someone calls him, and he falls in. Pretty good party the night before, or something in the water?


^Despite that I've maybe missed the most essential point?
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Sorry, in what context does this fit in? I either have amnesia and can't recall, or you just pulled the ultimate thread derail by pulling a spanner out of the pit of randomness.
 
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