The placement of letter in words can be crucial

[frualeydis]

I am rather fond of a swedish artist from the 40s, 50s and 60s, called Lasse Dahlquist. The tunes are catchy, sort of sea shanty inspired, the texts are usually very corny and they make happy as a black and white movie from the 40s. Anyway, one of the absolutely corniest is called "Hello, you old red indian!" and since I have listened so many times to it I of course know the text.
Well, knowing it and singing it is apparently two different things. Instead of "bar den som segertrofé", which means "carried it as a victory trophy" I sang "bar den som segerfrotté", which means "carried as victory terry cloth". I only switched place for two letters, but it came out very wrong. And funny.

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[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

"And the triumphant procession approached waving the nappy of victory..."

Well, it conjures up a picture. Possibly not one that many would wat to conjure, but definately a picture..... {giggle!}

Teddy

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the thing that was worn as a trophy/piece of terry cloth? A scalp.

/Eva

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm.... more with the conjuring of nasty-nappy imagery ("There he stood with his nappy of victory proudly worn on his head"...)

Ugh!


Teddy

[therru.livejournal.com]

It's like when I was at Malung and we sang a folk choral where the lyrics went "och vore ej det barnet fött/förtappat bleve då allt kött..." ("And were the child not born/all flesh would be lost"). Instead, I sang: "Förpackat bleve då allt kött" ("all meat would be packed").

Or, once when I was very, very tired and asked somebody for a plastic case (plastficka). Only I switched the t and k sounds in the Swedish word. I'm not even going to write out the result. Or translate it.

[love3angle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like your way better! LOL!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Oh, not on his head, after scalping.

/Eva

[annalindqvist.livejournal.com]

:-)

When my husband was six they singed the song "Teddybjörnen Fredriksson". But he was very confused when they came to the refrain and the bear changed name: teddybjörnen Fredriksson, Jansson hette han...

/Anna

[nazgman.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of a german colleague of mine, who, when in the US, managed to mix up "germs" with "sperms", and frantically claimed that the latter could indeed spread through the airconditioning system. And later on needed an eraser, asked for a rubber, got laughter, and angrily responded: "I really need a rubber!"

[amonik.livejournal.com]

Att läsa "Mandeln som sölats i blod" istället för "Manteln" när man läste bibeltext i julottan var ingen hit heller...