Conversation by sign language mutually misunderstood

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Conversation by sign language mutually misunderstood.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · One thing mistaken for another – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1804

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

India*Thompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda.
general *Nyrop Dania II 49ff.

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Filed under One thing mistaken for another – miscellaneous.

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Breath in the cold thought to be tobacco smoke Words in a foreign language thought to be insults Learned words misunderstood by uneducated Other misunderstandings of words Setting sun mistaken for fire Other things with mistaken identities

Carried in tale types

Discussion in Sign Language · ATU 9241 recorded variant

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