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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Under the influence

Words that are difficult to say when you had too much wine:

Inevitable
Preliminary
Orthopaedist
Prononciation

Words that are very difficult to say when you had too much wine:

Substantiated
Versatility
Institutionalized
Chuchichästli (Swiss German for kitchen cupboard)

Words that are more or less impossible to say when you had too much wine:

I don't want sex, thanks.
No more booze for me.
Sorry but you're not my type.

posted by Annika @ 4:28 PM  

9 Comments:

  • At 6:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hey, let me know the next time you’re heading up to Germany. I’ll make sure I stock up on some wine (nudge nudge, wink wink … a nudge is as good as a wink to a blind bat…) ;-)

     

  • At 6:07 PM, Blogger Annika said…

    I'm a fairly good drinker, may cost you more than 50 EUR...:)

     

  • At 6:17 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hey! Watch it now! ;-)

    Actually that’s perfectly fine with me … it’s not about the bargain. Remember that old saying “You get what you pay for”, right?! ;-)

     

  • At 6:18 PM, Blogger Annika said…

    Yes, heard about "dream on, baby"?

     

  • At 6:22 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Damn … you sure do know how to ruin somebody’s buzz in a heartbeat…

     

  • At 6:25 PM, Blogger Annika said…

    How's about you'll never know, then :) ?

     

  • At 8:12 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Well, it seems to me that you’re taking what I meant to be a silly little exchange and turning it into a bit of a personal attack. Now I don’t know you and you don’t know me, but I was trying to be nice. Did I ever think that you were actually going to head up to Germany and let me get you drunk? No! I was just kidding…

    Now I happen to know what was being referred to with the €50 comment. The “you get what you pay for” response was actually a poor attempt at a compliment to you. Was it incredibly humorous? No. Did it completely miss its intended point? Sure looks like it from your response…

    Oh well, whatever… Go ahead and reply that I am not worthy of ever “knowing” you. You may even believe that. Just let me say that I’m not the least bit ashamed of who I am and you can go ahead and proclaim that I am worthy of you. I really don’t care.

     

  • At 11:40 PM, Blogger Annika said…

    Oh dear. Ever heard of banter?

     

  • At 6:54 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Why yes … yes I have. In fact banter was exactly what I was attempting to begin with. I guess the main problem with written text is that you lose the subtle nuances made vividly clear in audible conversations with changes in pitch and tone. The same group of words can mean several different (and quite often opposite) things depending on where emphasis is either stressed or diminished in spoken conversations. Maybe this is a feature more prominent in the English language, but I doubt it. Since I am one of your clueless Americans that can only hold a conversation in English, I only have that one language as a reference.

    The thing is that written text has the handicap of just being a group of words. The delivery of the words is lost. Was I incorrect in my interpretations of your responses? To me they actually seemed a bit on the mean side however you are now considering it banter. Oh well, perhaps I misread them, but I doubt it. It most definitely still appears to me that you think I am a lower class of human.

    Oh, and by the way, I appear to have missed a word in that last response. That was supposed to read “that I am NOT worthy of you”. See, written communication is easily messed up…

     

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