16 Dec
1998
16 Dec
'98
6:20 a.m.
Learning new words is good. Due to the way the bunk
beds in the
dormitory at Georgia Tech were arranged, I and my roommate from
Berlin learned all sorts of new words from each other that I still
find useful when dropping a tool on my foot.
About 10 years ago our company hired a non-English-speaking artist from
Germany. Apart from being constantly high, our art department also had a
(mean?) humorous streak. They taught him a very interesting form of
English - and colourful. Instead of saying "wow, excellent!", they
convinced him that the correct thing to say was "most spannerlike!", and
that a correct form of greeting was "Hello Sailor!". There were many more
interesting variations, and his English was eventually, suffice it to say,
unusual :) Of course, he could swear like a trooper.
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