Zengum! A little Engrish explanation, please

[morethanpretty]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Wouldn't that have been speech rethapy?


An old friend of mine never mastered the "th" sound. (Blonde, female, youngest child ... nevermind, move along ...).

Nevertheless, she has a PhD. Which she got by writing a thesis, or in her case, a fesis. Now the plural of thesis is theses (sounds "theess-ees"). So, when we took her out to dinner to celebrate her finishing her "fesis" and asked her what she was going to do next, she tried to reply "a couple of my friends have asked me to read their theses over summer".



Maybe it is a new form of fortune telling or something.

I don't feel so bad about the torture I had to go frough to get fose sounds down wight now. Franks Zen!

BTW...I'm the youngest, what are you tryin to say about me?

(Oh and I'm not making fun of your friend, just reflecting on how much worse off I could have been)

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

I don't feel so bad about the torture I had to go frough to get fose sounds down wight now. Franks Zen!

BTW...I'm the youngest, what are you tryin to say about me?

Hey, I am a youngest too. My friend could get her way by asking childishly, so the behaviour was reinforced. Her two older sisters would set her up to ask for anything they wanted.

(Oh and I'm not making fun of your friend...

I was. She was nice and fairly bright but occasionally would fall into stupidity. One April first someone sent her a link to the Bonsai kittens website. She was well into organising a petition against the practice before someone explained...

She is now director of scientific and medical research at a major university institution. Probably getting paid twice what I am ... hmmmm...