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Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

47of74

(18,470 posts) Mon Mar 3, 2014, 09:00 PM Mar 2014

Francis dropped an F bomb

Ooops.

Pope Francis may have to go to confession after witnesses say he accidentally dropped the Italian equivalent of the F-bomb during his weekly blessing from the Vatican.

The Argentine pope was delivering his blessing in Italian on Sunday when it happened: He was supposedly intending to use the word "caso," but pronounced in way that made it sound like, well, you know, in Italian.

It's a common mistake, made especially by those who are not native Italian speakers. But that didn't stop the incident from going viral.

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Francis dropped an F bomb (Original Post) 47of74 Mar 2014 OP

So someone for whom Italian is a second language mispronounces a word. Fortinbras Armstrong Mar 2014 #1

Fortinbras Armstrong

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1. So someone for whom Italian is a second language mispronounces a word.

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Tue Mar 4, 2014, 02:18 PM

Mar 2014

Well, that's something to be up in arms about.

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