Hunger and a Woman

Seeing how most of my posts are somewhat serious, I figure it’s time to loosen up the ole belt and joke around a bit. If you don’t mind, I wanna make fun of myself for a second or 3.

I made a fairly humorous linguistic mistake recently that I think is worth writing about.

First a tiny bit of background information regarding the French language. In French, when you say that you are hungry, you actually say that you have hunger. So if I want to say that I’m hungry, I would literally say “I have hunger.” Well the French words for 'hunger' and 'woman' are quite similar, and if you don’t know all of the French pronunciation rules you could very easily pronounce the two words exactly the same.

And so here is what happened…

I live in a dormitory type building with about 20 other single people and we have a large kitchen that we all share. A few weeks ago when I walked into the kitchen to cook my dinner, I tried to tell the others who were also there that I was hungry. However, I instead announced in a fairly loud voice:

“I have a woman!”

How’s that for a conversation starter?!?!

Peace,

M. Pascal