I don't know Spanish. I've worked in a Mexican restaurant and thought it would be prudent of me to learn at least a teensy bit of Spanish to get along. As it turns out, I am terrible at learning a new language.
Anyway, I thought about this one day when I was carrying on a phone conversation with a woman who was ordering food.
She asks me for chicken tacos. We get through the rest of the order just fine.
I read her order back to her. She screams: "No PLATO, I said PLATO. Not TACO. Like platter, or plata?"
Me: "Plate? You meant chicken plates?"
Her: "Plato! I mean plato! What's plato in English?"
Me: "Plate. Plato is plate in English".
Her: "What? That doesn't make any sense. I want the platos of chicken"
Me: "Ok, so you want two chicken plates-"
Her: "NO, PLATOS-I don't want PLATES!"
Me: "A plato is a plate, ma'am"
Her: "What?"
Me: "A plato is a plate. It's the same thing".
Her: "Oh. Well what's my total?"
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