Croatian Linguistic Biff Spells Success for Soccer Team.

[sechan19]

According to this article, a British Opera singer made a slight mispronunciation while singing the Croatian National Anthem at a soccer game last Wednesday. Rather than singing the line, "we love your mountains" he instead sang, "my penis is a mountain." Croatian fans claim that the humor in the situation enabled Croatian teammates to relax and directly contributed to the team win.

Has anyone else noticed just how easy it is to refer to human genitalia via the innocuous mispronunciation of a common word in just about every language ever? If that's not proof of a higher power (albeit a higher power with a wicked sense of humor), I just don't know what is.

Expect a holiday week recap in the next couple of days.

Comments

and mountians do move

[alonewolverine.livejournal.com]

according to jacob, who's happens to be a huge soccer fan, that game was a big deal. Most of England and Croatia were probably watching. So awesome. Gawd, could you imagine if that had happened on American television? I would have been rolling on the floor.

Re: and mountians do move

[reteva.livejournal.com]

And Americans across the country would have been outraged. Most Americans have no sense of humor. That's actually one of the things I liked best about this story. I think it really shows the affability of the Croatian people - that a foreigner made a huge gaff with their National Anthem, and they laughed it off with aplomb. We could all learn a valuable lesson from such diplomatic grace.