I was hanging out after lunch with some 5th graders today. One of them is really into dinosaurs. He kept trying to drag my attention away to talk about them.
To try to keep the others involved, I asked another boy, in Japanese, if he liked dinosaurs. Now, the Japanese word for “dinosaur” is “kyoryu”. But I messed up and said “kyuryo”. That means “salary”. The kid rolled with it nicely. First he kindly corrected me, then he said (in Japanese), “My dinosaur is $1,000 per month.”
Awesome.