Thursday, September 25, 2008

more linguistic confusion

In the grand tradition of "rod iron", I just read someone remark that they had hammy downs. It literally took me about 45 seconds before I could parse that. Ohhhhhh.

I find it difficult to believe that someone whose native language is English would really think that that is in fact the actual phrase, but on the other hand, most people whose native language is not English but who are posting in English on the internet are very careful about checking idioms that they are not completely familiar with. So I'm betting illiterate American. Who obviously doesn't deserve anything better than hammy downs.

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