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Sunday, August 04, 2002
"THAT'S TERESTING!"
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I was talking to a friend the other day, and she said that an executive where she works was very ill-mannered. So I asked, "Would you say, then, that his manners are 'peccable'?" "Oh, as opposed to 'impeccable'?" she laughed, getting the joke. So, I made the same joke the next day to Andy M., and he laughed, and then he replied that he found my comment completely "turbing" (as opposed to disturbing). Staring at him intently, I warned him that I was easily "tracted" while talking with him. "This conversation is very 'teresting,'" was his witty reply.
We kept having to explain the joke to our friend Sophie W.,telling her that "tracted" was the opposite of "distracted" and that "teresting" was the opposite of "interesting". It only occurs to me now as I am writing this, that the problem was probably that she isn't a native english speaker. She speaks perfectly (though with a slight Shanghai accent), but English isn't her first language. More on this BIG IDEA to follow (above).
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