No speaka dee Engrish

I have two close friends in my program with whom I take most of my classes, and often we laugh because we all have different first languages, and all speak three languages, which occasionally makes for some interesting dynamics.

One of their favourite stories, however, is the time I was trying to describe a play in English, my first language. The word was not coming to me, so finally I said the closest thing I could come up with. "You know, one of those things... a piece of theatre?"

"You mean a play?"

"Right. Une pièce de thèâtre"

"Aren't you the English one?"

"Really, who knows anymore?"