My worst faux pas?
間抜け、
There are many candidates. Well, for
at least the dumbest, probably this.
外出していた。
Forty years ago, my wife and I were out having a glass or two
of wine with a Spanish woman of 45 to 50. Over our wine, I
remarked about a man, of 30 to 35, I had seen with her, whom I
took to be her son. After a slight pause the woman corrected me:
"No, he's my brother." But despite frequent grimaces from my