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Friday, October 8, 2010

Fun with homonyms

The word avocat has two meanings in French.  I've been suspecting as much for awhile, but everybody talks so fast that sometimes I don't hear things right.  It all started when I asked my housemate for a word, and he replied with a word I thought meant something completely different.  I used the interwebs to confirm, and the two meanings for avocat are the following.

Avocado

Lawyer
*I didn't post these images as a joke, either: at time of posting, these were the top two images for avocat on French Google Image Search.

You can imagine my prior confusion.  To my ears, that conversation with my housemate went like this:  "What's the word for avocado in French?"  "Lawyer."

This piece of trivia has made the grocery store way more fun, though, because in my head I'm purposefully translating incorrectly.  "Bag of lawyers, 2 euro!"  "Weigh your lawyers here!"  "Lawyers on sale!"

It's just as funny the other way, too. "Oh it's definitely going to court, both sides have already avacado-ed up."  "Been in a car wreck?  Call an avocado TODAY."

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