By Julia Pond, Managing Editor, and Becky Mahan, Editor
Traveling can be super awkward. Not only are you trying to navigate your way around an unknown place, probably in desperate need of a shower, but you're also trying to navigate a new culture and language. And more often than not, hilarity ensues when it turns out that a word with a perfectly innocent meaning in your language has a ridiculously dirty or rude cognate in the place you're visiting. Have you ever asked if food had any "preservatives" in Spanish or Italian? If so, congratulations! You actually asked if there were any condoms in it.
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