Just a quick recommendation. Head over to CEO Blues and read Dan's excellent posts detailing his Outward Bound journey one day at a time. You should, of course, start with his account of day 1, get caught up by reading about day 2 and today's post about day 3, and diligently follow along for the remaining 18 days. Included in today's post is this tale of cross-cultural slang, misinterpreted:

After supper the taller of the Veroniques leaned over and whispered to me in poor English this line... this is a word for word quote... "Hey, do you want to go commando?"

Let?s pause here for a moment to reflect. I have known this female for 48 hours. She has just asked me if I want to remove my underwear. I am confused, very very confused.

Without looking too shocked I managed to ask her what she meant by "go commando". She then proceeds to tell me that it is the French term for playing pranks on people. I laugh and tell her what it means in English. She gets embarrassed, but laughs hysterically. Matt almost exhales a lung laughing when he hears this.