Misunderstandings because of lack of knowledge of a different language than one's own

Motif

Misunderstandings because of lack of knowledge of a different language than one's own.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal fool – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J2496.2

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. *2420
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under "I don't know" thought to be a person's name. A man in a country that cannot speak his language hears "I don't know" so frequently that he thinks it must be the name of the owner of all the places he inquires about.

Filed beside it

Boy who worked for "nothing at all" goes to town and demands "nothing at all." (Cf. J2489.10.)

Carried in tale types

Misunderstanding Because of Ignorance of a Foreign Language (Including the previous Type 1699A) · ATU 1699 1 recorded variant
The Changed Order · ATU 1699B 1 recorded variant

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