We Eat Baby At Christmas

Learning a language is difficult and humbling experience. Its humbling because you must be willing to sound foolish, take much correction, and learn something from it, all at the same time. A friend of mine was talking with his Language Teacher (in Arabic) about holidays here and in Britain. They come upon Christmas and he thinks he says, 'We eat Turkey at Christmas.' The pregnant teacher grabs her belly and says, 'NO!!' A strange reaction he thought, then he realized his mistake. See, the word for turkey is 'bibi', where the word for baby is 'bebe'. So he mistakenly said, "We eat Baby at Christmas" They had a good laugh about it!