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The funny things guys say/ Their total misunderstanding

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FI was telling me about a friend at his office who is getting divorced and his assets are pretty much being ripped apart by his ex. Ouch. He mentioned pre-nups a few times throughout his story, but then I finally realized he was saying "pre-NUB." 

I said, "You know it's pre-NUP, right? As in prenuptial agreement. What would NUB stand for?" 

He said, "Oh. I always thought it was nub. Like, when your wife leaves she takes everything and all you're left with are little nubs." 

I laughed hysterically. He's a very intelligent guy, don't get me wrong. And it's not like he hasn't caught me accidentally saying something silly a million times.  But I thought this little slip-up was both hilarious and adorable. 

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  • luckya23luckya23 member
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    Mine had a favorite restaurant near his old apartment and he always called it "The Bristo".  It was a bistro. 

    I do think he may have some dyslexia issues though.

    Neither he nor my ex could say "vietnamese".  It's always "vietmanese".

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  • loro929loro929 member
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    This is a great thread. FI and I speak different maternal languages (when we speak to each other we go back and forth approx. 50/50 in both languages)
    So you can imagine the misunderstandings there are sometimes in our house over the simplest things.
    But more than a misunderstanding, I think our funniest anecdotes are when he tries to use colloquialisms and they come out strange. Recently he learned "G" as in "thousand dollars". We were chatting one day about buyin a new television and FI goes on to tell me "That must be worth at least a half of G's" My response is "half of G's?" Fi's response "Yeah, half of G's, you know, like thousands". My response "OH okay",,, then the laughing ensues. 
    I guess I can't really chalk it up to misunderstanding because FI actually understood perfectly the use. I just think he's so cute and want to squeeze him when he tries to integrate culturally colloquial talk into his conversations.

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  • raissyraisraissyrais member
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    Funny thread! My FI can never say St.Pancras (there's a station here with that name) and he always says St.PancrEas lol. I always try to explain to him that one is quite different from the other. And the dude is British heheheheeh. And for some reason I can never say subtract I always says subStract. And oxytoXin instead of oxytocin.
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  • beetherybeethery member
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    FI says shit and doesn't know what the words mean all the time. 

    That boy can take apart and rebuild your car, understand the science behind his work, and rattle off a million sports plays and the effects and counter-plays the other team might make. 

    But he will say something trying to be funny and use a word he doesn't know the meaning of and then not understand when I'm like, "????" and then explain the definition to him.
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  • jenna8984jenna8984 member
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    That is pretty funny!!

    Unfortunately it's usually my husband who is the one correcting me. Like every time I call the leaves fall "foilage". And I'm from New England- fail.

                                                                     

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  • InkdancerInkdancer member
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    DH actually has a learning disorder that causes him to mix up similar-sounding vocabulary words. My mom thought he was being pretentious for the longest time, but he's not!

    Mostly I think he's funny in his utter lack of sense of direction. We go somewhere, and I figure he can reverse-engineer the directions home. Nope, he wants to take the exact opposite turn at every street. "Well we turned right onto the street, so we should turn right off of it." No, my love, that is exactly the opposite of what you should do.
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  • falsarafalsara member
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    Often he makes references that I don't know so we spend a lot of time with me watching/ reading things so that I can understand his references.  He does it with other people too. An he doesn't always get my references either, we tend to have different fandoms, that cross over in certain areas.

    I have a few classes with FI and he always tries to take whatever the professor is saying and relate it to a comic book or, a star trek episode, or Dr. Who or something that only about 5% of anyone in our classes actually knows.  Its just a way for him to relate obscure/ abstract ideas, to things that he is really familiar with, even if the rest of the class is clueless.  

    Today we were in a lit class and were talking about Marxism and Ideology.  And talking about problems with something in the theory and then FI related it to the Matt Damon movie Elysium.  

    He normally does this by going "So is this like that one story line from (Insert random reference)."  Often the professor hasn't read or seen that particular thing so then FI has to explain it.  Most of the time, the other people in the class tend to grumble a bit.  I think it's funny.  Ultimately he's just trying to figure out how to remember it by trying to relate to the stuff that he knows.



                                               

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    Inkdancer said:
    DH actually has a learning disorder that causes him to mix up similar-sounding vocabulary words. My mom thought he was being pretentious for the longest time, but he's not!

    Mostly I think he's funny in his utter lack of sense of direction. We go somewhere, and I figure he can reverse-engineer the directions home. Nope, he wants to take the exact opposite turn at every street. "Well we turned right onto the street, so we should turn right off of it." No, my love, that is exactly the opposite of what you should do.
    This is my Fi... His sense of direction is awful. He's such a smart guy, but he has no idea where he's going 90% of the time.
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  • jenna8984jenna8984 member
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    jynxiie said:
    Inkdancer said:
    DH actually has a learning disorder that causes him to mix up similar-sounding vocabulary words. My mom thought he was being pretentious for the longest time, but he's not!

    Mostly I think he's funny in his utter lack of sense of direction. We go somewhere, and I figure he can reverse-engineer the directions home. Nope, he wants to take the exact opposite turn at every street. "Well we turned right onto the street, so we should turn right off of it." No, my love, that is exactly the opposite of what you should do.
    This is my Fi... His sense of direction is awful. He's such a smart guy, but he has no idea where he's going 90% of the time.

    I'm terrible with directions, I lose my car in mall parking lots. So he uses the GPS everywhere we go. I'm like babe I know how to get to my grandparent's house, just listen to me! And he still doesn't trust me to get us there and puts it in his GPS lol.

                                                                     

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  • WinstonsGirlWinstonsGirl member
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    Not DH, but my parents always call Bed and Breakfasts "Bread and Breakfasts", I guess cos they get a lot of toast for breakfast maybe. Even after numerous corrections.

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  • luckya23luckya23 member
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    UPDATE: My SO just said "Well, hindsight is 50/50!"

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  • princessleia22princessleia22 member
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    My DH often mixes up words or mispronounces them.  The latest one was saying "Pinterest".  He always said it as Pin-Interest.  I corrected him the first time he said it, he didn't change, so I just let it drop.  Well, a couple weeks ago, he calls me in the middle of the work day.  Him and his co-worker were arguing over the correct pronunciation of it.  He puts me on speakerphone and I sadly had to tell him that he was incorrect and his coworker was right.

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  • novella1186novella1186 member
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    FI just fist-bumped my engagement ring and yelled WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE!
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    novella1186 said:

    FI just fist-bumped my engagement ring and yelled WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE!

    Yeah, I get "space rocks! " complète with weird jazz hand type gesture.
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  • InkdancerInkdancer member
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    novella1186 said:
    FI just fist-bumped my engagement ring and yelled WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE!
    H did that right after we got married.
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  • mschristie123mschristie123 member
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    I know I'm late to this thread, but I was thinking about all your SO's and the shit they say. The other night, DH came home with cookies and opened up the package and says to me "You have to try these luscious lemon cookies!" But instead of saying "luscious" he say "Lucius" (pronounced it like 'Lucius Malfoy.) He was completely oblivious to his mispronunciation and I just laughed my ass off at him.
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