I said American just for kicks. The "correct" answer is monolingual though.
My ASL (American Sign Language) teacher once told us that she was on a date with a deaf man and they went to Mazzio's for dinner. She turned to him to sign "I'm hungry, are you?" and instead signed "I'm horny, are you?". Turns out, the sign for "hungry" is almost the same as "horny". The difference is, you move your hand back and forth to sign "horny" and keep it still for "hungry". Needless to say, they didn't go out again =P
Yeah, coffee and making out are uncomfortably (hilariously) close, too. Another fun mistake is understanding that when one person meets one person, the sign is holding a finger up on each hand and showing them meeting. One person meeting two people is similarly shown, two fingers up on one hand. Two people meeting two people? Not the obvious sign - that's f***ing.
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Date: 2009-06-19 02:00 pm (UTC)My ASL (American Sign Language) teacher once told us that she was on a date with a deaf man and they went to Mazzio's for dinner. She turned to him to sign "I'm hungry, are you?" and instead signed "I'm horny, are you?". Turns out, the sign for "hungry" is almost the same as "horny". The difference is, you move your hand back and forth to sign "horny" and keep it still for "hungry". Needless to say, they didn't go out again =P
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