Lost in translation....
A few year back, I was 'sort-of' engaged to a local girl I met in Tenerife... the actual details of this are possibly one for a QOTW entitled "F'd up relationships, and how they ended" if it ever happens.

My ability with the Spanish language is limited at best, but her English was good enough that we were together for two years, despite the occasional linguistic misunderstanding

One such occasion was when my missus informed me that a 'night club' (her exact words!) had opened opposite her mothers house on the north of the island...

"Fantastic" says I, already planning on doing my duty as an Englishman abroad, and getting staggeringly drunk on cheap lager...

"Lets go, make a night of it, and stop at your mothers after?"

...a stunned silence was soon followed by some violence and some Spanish screaming of what I assumed to be insults. Of this tirade, the only word of which I recognised was "Puta" (which I feel says far too much about me!).

As it turns out, the literal translation of whatever common slang is used in Canarian-Spanish for "Whore House" is very similar to "Night Club"...

Took a while to calm her down after that one!
( BulldogUgly Visit my profile to see what's between my legs, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 13:18, Reply)