IVIV 'Actually I'm a marine lawyer"

[David Morris]

"Tanner helps us a bit here" ??????????????

Willis, Watchoo talkin' about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9oX-kZ_9k

Alice,
Your storey has become tiresome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZR9SA5pOg


On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:57 AM, alice
wellintown<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If, while speaking with a German,  I say,
> "Don't take this personally, My MAn, but all Germans are stupid,"
>
>  how can a German not take offense?
> Well, the German could assume that I'm an idiot.
> Or, he could be a self-loathing German and agree with me.
> Or, he could assume that, as Deborah Tanner might explain, I didn't mean what I said.
>
> Now, if Aunt Reet sez to Larry, "Mickey ....is stoned out of his fucking mind, nothing personal," (8) how is Larry to take her meaning?
>
> Well, again Tanner helps us a bit here, [...] the language is so loaded with idiomatic fads and business and Tv talk and so on that it is quite difficult for readers to understand [...]Communication suffers.