How often do you notice the word plays between English and other languages? Or simply other languages? I think about them quite often and it always makes me laugh.
The last example happened on Wednesday evening when quite an international group gathered for some drinks in a local bar. We had Turkish and Swedish visitors from Lund who ordered a local beer. After the first glass they wanted to know what's the name of the beer as it was so good. The bartender (always a bit tipsy) said: "Bok".
At that point the Turkish guy who is actually living in Sweden started to laugh a lot and we couldn't understand why.
Then we got an explanation. In Turkish "bok" means "shit", while in Swedish "bok" means "a book". So not only he was drinking a beer "shit", but also he remembered seeing in Sweden "bokfestival" - which you can translate yourselves :)
And that's not all. At that point somebody said that in Portugal is a beer, called "Super Bock". The laughing didn't stop for even a longer time.
The last example happened on Wednesday evening when quite an international group gathered for some drinks in a local bar. We had Turkish and Swedish visitors from Lund who ordered a local beer. After the first glass they wanted to know what's the name of the beer as it was so good. The bartender (always a bit tipsy) said: "Bok".
At that point the Turkish guy who is actually living in Sweden started to laugh a lot and we couldn't understand why.
Then we got an explanation. In Turkish "bok" means "shit", while in Swedish "bok" means "a book". So not only he was drinking a beer "shit", but also he remembered seeing in Sweden "bokfestival" - which you can translate yourselves :)
And that's not all. At that point somebody said that in Portugal is a beer, called "Super Bock". The laughing didn't stop for even a longer time.
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