Hello everyone.
I am not a native English speaker, actually I started to learn proper English once I moved to the US.
My girlfriend and friends speak to me in my mother language so I have little to none social skills on English.
Today I had lunch with my girlfriend’s family and I was super nervous because they mainly speak in English but I managed to communicate with them and even crossed a couple of jokes with my father in law.
My mind was going at 200mph trying to not be weird with my broken English and I was beginning to leave my awkwardness behind.
That until I heard them talking about 2Pac and other famous RAPPERS.
My father in law was saying how he liked 2pac and for him he was the greatest rap icon or something like that.
Me being a big Spanish rap fan, I started to panic thinking about something cool to say about a topic I enjoy.
And naturally I said “I didn’t’ knew you liked rapists”
Everybody became silent and my father in law made the most disgusted expression I’ve ever seen.
He just said “what?” And I answered “I didn’t thought you liked rap artists”
After that my girlfriend explained me what I did wrong, I was really nervous and between shifting from conversations in Spanish with my girlfriend and his brother and conversations in English I committed my most stupid mistake in my entire life.
Didn’t talked much for the rest of the afternoon.
Will never forget the shame I felt once I realized what I said.
I hazte my broken English.
TL;DR: Said “rapist” instead of “rapper”, because I thought that was the English translation for “rapero”.
Blackeststool t1_j0ea3up wrote
No need to feel shame. English is not an easy language and frankly I would have found that mispronunciation hysterical.