Case 1 Shoes for Street Walking
It is said that in Rome, in front of a shoe store, there was such a sign to attract English-speaking customers: Shoes for street walking. Come in and have a fit. The sign caught the attention of many Englishspeaking tourists, but not to look at the shoes displayed in the windows, but to read the sign and then break out into laughter.
Language and Culture
“Careful with fire,” is good advice, we know; “Careful with words,” is ten times doubly so.
Will Carleton, The First Settler’s Story
Words different in denotation
A term in one language does not necessarily have a counterpart in the other language;
Words or terms in both languages appear to refer to the same object or concept only on the surface, but actually refer to quite different things;