I Was Born on a Seat

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Shahar Golan · retweet · share comment

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Israeli newspaper Haaretz has an interesting article today on high school seniors’ misuse of electronic dictionaries during their English exams. Can you decipher what the students meant, from what they actually wrote?

I want you to barber about your experience
Drivers don’t curfew in red light
The weather was father-in-law
I was born on a seat

Read the full article in Ingleesh or in Ibroo.

H/T: Guy Yitzhaki

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