Thursday, December 14, 2006

Invite and Order

We were at a medical clinic the other day and a man shouted to his wife in English, who was talking to the receptionist, "Tell them the doctor invited it!" Invited it?

I chuckled because I understood his error! In Hebrew, the verb that means "to invite" and "to order" is the same word so the guy simply picked the wrong English word to translate the Hebrew word in his head.

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