The Joy of Living with Second Language Learners

Funny conversations are a part of our household... today we had a good one!

Liver and Osmel were trying to figure out how to ask me if we had something that Liver needed. Here is the conversation

Osmel: "What do you need to put a bottom on a chair?"

Karen: {thinking} hmmm... "I don't understand."

Liver: "What do you use to fix your pants when they are broken?"

Karen {thinking... broken pants... bottom, chair, hmmm} "I still don't understand... oh, broken pants, needle and thread. Oh, I get it, what do you need to put a BUTTON on a SHIRT...