Something's fishy

I was asked to translate the sentence "the policeman rode into the crowd on his big white horse" into Spanish. Horse in Spanish is caballo and mackerel is caballa.
Guess what I said?

Sent by: Felicia

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R del Ar, USA2011-05-24

Haha, oh my Felicia. That is something else. I try to warn people to also be careful using google's translator. I have made similar mistakes using that.

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Elizabeth2010-02-11

Reminds me of 'derecho' and 'derecha', the former meaning 'straight' and the latter meaning 'right' - things helpful not to confuse when giving or asking directions. The endings of words are so important! :)

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