Answering my own post here, but some of the comments reminded me of this one.
This is honestly just a story I ran across while studying Japanese, not a story that happened to me personally. (I swear. Heh.)
But I remember reading a story about someone who wanted bread crumbs for breading things. They’re called “panko” in both Japanese and English, but in Japanese, the “a” makes a sound pretty much like the “a” and “all”.
The guy confused himself and asked folks working at the store to point him to where he could buy “manko”. The word “manko” is a very vulgar term for women’s genetalia. So he was trying to ask “where are the panko crumbs?”, but was actually asking basically “where’s the pussy?”.
Answering my own post here, but some of the comments reminded me of this one.
This is honestly just a story I ran across while studying Japanese, not a story that happened to me personally. (I swear. Heh.)
But I remember reading a story about someone who wanted bread crumbs for breading things. They’re called “panko” in both Japanese and English, but in Japanese, the “a” makes a sound pretty much like the “a” and “all”.
The guy confused himself and asked folks working at the store to point him to where he could buy “manko”. The word “manko” is a very vulgar term for women’s genetalia. So he was trying to ask “where are the panko crumbs?”, but was actually asking basically “where’s the pussy?”.