I know :)
Just took me a moment to understand what the hell she was going on about at the time.

Something like that happened to me as well. I met a French girl during some boring conference (they are all boring) and we grew fond of each other. But than she suddenly said "I'm very angry" I was pretty shocked. Have I said or done something wrong? I had no idea! And then she repeated: "I'm talking to you! I'm very, very angry" "But why" - I replied. "Are you stupid or what?" she laughed "What kind of question was that?" "I'm very sorry but I still don't know why" "Aren't you angry as well?" asked she and then I finally got it. She was actually saying... that she was hungry... That was hilarious. We still laugh every time we meet.

Quality.
Anyway, I think that this is older than the internets, but in case someone hasn't heard it yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAFQFvSPhQ8

"Protagonist" used as "the good guy" or "the hero" of the story. A protagonist is just any character of a story (or of any interaction), in french. And "the antagonist" doesn't mean anything. The good guy and the gad guy, in a story, are both antagonists. Antagonism is symetrical, it's a relation of conflict. Neither words have a moral value.

The fact that it's used is nuch an uninvolved, objective, "outside" way in french, makes the english usage sound very naively subjective to the french ear ("an antagonist" as if that protagonist of an antagonism was an objective enemy of the whole universe), and I was discussing with someone (with whom I already wasn't in good terms at all) who claimed that the presence of a moral value was totally obvious because "pro"="nice" and "anti"="evil".

Rage.


Well, looks like polish is much closer to french than to english.

Technically most of this is true in English as well, but only people who have studied literature know about the distinction. In English the protagonist is (one of) the acting characters the story focuses on, but there is no need for them to be good or heroic. The antagonist is simply a character that opposes the protagonist... again, no morality here. The most interesting character in Minority Report, for instance, is a good antagonist (Colin Farrell).

It's really not an English thing, it's just an ignorance thing.

Speaking of a rough translation, with the permission of the forum...
Oh, and I have a shit load more of these. :D

Yeah, it is old but funny nevertheless. Something similar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOTpIVxji8

I seriously doubt it ;) But it is quite probable that those two are loanwords from French

Have you seen THIS? I totally agree with this. It may be very painful afterall ;)

HA!

LOL (:D)
I bet they used Google Translate for that... :P

Ha!

Yeah it's mostly slang and weird words I worry about you guys not comprehending.

"My hovercraft is full of eels!"

I actually write in english on an RP forum and on other forums as well. My news are from english written websites, so I'm pretty used to writing it. If I make mistakes, I don't notice most of them, though there have been times when I've just misspelled a word multiple times because I didn't know better. I used to write 'wether' instead of 'whether', until I read in a dictionary wether pretty much means 'castrated male sheep'.

When I meet english speaking people who are practicing their spanish, I do give them some pointers regarding some words that might be confusing with some funny misconceptions.

- 'Leche' means milk and 'lechero' means 'milkman'. It has nothing to do with 'lecherous'
- 'Molestar' means 'to bother' and it has no sexual connotation in spanish. If a kid says 'no molestes', he's just telling you to stop bothering him, so relax.
- 'Introducir' means to put a smaller object inside a larger one. You don't 'introduce' your friends to other spanish speaking people. The correct verb is 'presentar', which has nothing to do with gifts or presents.

My English used to be decent, but it's deteriorated quite badly.

My favourite example of broken English would have to be this, from an ad for a Russian translation company, no less:

"Bet us your letter of business translation do. Every people in our staffing know English like the hand of their back. Up to the minuet wise-street phrases. Don't you know, old boy."

Oh my god, that's hilarious! (:D)
I wonder, what kind of English "expert" translations they did for their customers... O_o

EDIT: I found that text in this book: Screwed Up English. It has some really funny phrases... (:P)