# Funny Miscommunications Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 22, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-miscommunications-thread/1000627 "2024-04-22T18:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-miscommunications-thread/1000627/4 "2024-04-22T21:45:10Z")
Not a personal experience, but a funny incident that was reported in German media some years ago. A couple from Saxony wanted to book a flight to Porto, Portugal via telephone. Now the Saxon accent is famous for pronouncing hard consonants very softly, so what the person on the other end heard was “We want to book a flight to Bordo”, “Bordo” being homophonous with “Bordeaux”, a city of course in France. Guess where they landed… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-miscommunications-thread/1000627)._