RE: RE: Day 807: 5 Minute Freewrite: Sunday - Prompt: Coffee mug
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RE: Day 807: 5 Minute Freewrite: Sunday - Prompt: Coffee mug

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There are many instances when funny situations happen as a result of poor translation or not knowing the idiomatic expressions or poor pronunciation. Especially those what are FOB (Fresh off the boat)

People in Russian are taught English pronunciation. However, for the Russian mouth and ear, it's hard to differentiate between long and short sound "a". For example, they'd pronounce the words "hug" and "hag" the same way. Consequently, I will leave to your imagination how they'd pronounce the word "can't" )))

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