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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/RoommateClause91 on 2026-07-26 04:35:24+00:00.
So this happened about two weeks ago but I'm still dealing with the aftermath. I work at a small company and my boss sometimes brings his 6-year-old son to the office when school's out or whatever. The kid is curious about everything and always asks me questions because I speak a few languages.
Last month the kid started asking me to teach him words in different languages. Innocent stuff like hello, thank you, colors, animals. I thought it was cute and his dad seemed fine with it. Well, two weeks ago the kid asked me how to say frustrated in Polish. I was in the middle of debugging some annoying code and without really thinking I told him the word. Except I didn't say frustrated. I said the Polish equivalent of a pretty harsh curse word. In my defense they sound somewhat similar if you're not paying attention and my brain was fried.
The kid thought it was hilarious and kept repeating it. I realized my mistake like 30 seconds later and tried to correct it but he'd already run off. I figured maybe he'd forget or just stop saying it. Nope. Apparently he went home and started using it constantly because he thought it meant frustrated. His dad doesn't speak Polish so he had no idea. Then last week they visited the boss's wife's family and someone there is actually from Poland. The kid used the word at dinner. In front of everyone.
My boss pulled me aside yesterday and was like so uh my son taught my mother-in-law a new word she didn't appreciate. He wasn't angry exactly but definitely not thrilled. Now I'm the guy who accidentally taught a six-year-old to swear in Polish at family dinners. The kid still waves at me every time he comes in but I'm keeping all future language lessons strictly to food words.
TL;DR: Taught my boss's kid a Polish swear word by accident when he asked for a different word, he used it in front of his Polish grandmother at a family dinner, now I'm that coworker.