Ich spreche klein deutsch
Friday, 22 December 2006 14:03It always amuses me when people say, "Ich spreche klein(e) deutsch" (or variations thereon).
Presumably, it's meant to be a translation of "I speak only a little German", but"klein" is "little" only in the sense of "small" ("I speak small German"?), not in the sense of "not much" (which would be "wenig").
It's a cute mistake.