Lisa Lopes From Cape Verde Deletes Her Tweet After Ghanaians Laughed As Her Caption Means "My Fart Smells"

Lisa Lopes From Cape Verde Deletes Her Tweet After Ghanaians Laughed As Her Caption Means "My Fart Smells"

  • Lisa Lopes, a Cape Verdean singer/songwriter, innocently tweeted a photo of herself captioned with the words "Mi ta bon," which means "I am good" in Papiamento, her native language
  • However, the phrase's unintended translation in Twi, a Ghanaian language, means "My fart smells," causing amusement amongst Ghanaians
  • This has resulted in a storm of responses and memes flooding various online platforms which made Lisa delete the tweet

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A recent tweet from Cape Verde singer/songwriter Lisa Lopes has set social media ablaze, generating a flurry of reactions from Ghanaian netizens.

In the tweet, Lopes innocently captioned her photo with the words "Mi ta bon," written in Papiamento, her native language.

However, the phrase's unintended translation in Twi, a Ghanaian language, has caused quite an amusement amongst Ghanaians.

Lisa Lopes from Cape Verde
Singer from Cape Verde mocked by Ghanaians Photo credit: @lisa_lopes
Source: Twitter

Little did Lisa Lopes know that in Twi, "Mi ta bon" actually means "My fart smells". This hilarious lost-in-translation incident has sent Ghanaians into fits of laughter, resulting in a storm of responses and memes flooding various online platforms.

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While the tweet was genuinely meant to convey a positive message in Papiamento, which according to Google Translate is, "I'm fine", the unintended twist caused her to angrily delete the post from Twitter.

Check out some comments from Ghanaians below:

mariaannss said:

Loooooooool omg only now realising what she said because I was so confused

Commonwealth Culer ❤️ commented:

Buh u menners make the barbie vex waa she make win account private

BenopaOnyx1 stated:

Bon Bini. I’m sure that language is the opposite of Twi.

@GhanaYesu_ added:

That one too get different meaning?

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