How To Say ?This Is Crap? In Different Cultures

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Whilst working in the garden I called to my wife "What time is it?" to which
she yelled... "Lunch will be ready when I'm ready!"

Marriage, huh?

:-)

Hugh Senior
FLCo


> -----Original Message-----> From: Bob Sneidar
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> Reminds me a lot of a trip I took with my Dad and Stepmom around the big
> island of Hawaii. I would hear her say something that barely registered
with
> me, but my Dad seemed to immediately act upon it. After watching this
> interaction for a bit, I realized she was speaking in a kind of code, and
he was
> interpreting it, and doing a damd good job of it too, although she would
> probably have disagreed about that.
> 
> I brought it up to him later, and he confirmed that this was exactly what
was
> going on. He had learned to do this over the years he had been with her.
She
> would make vague references to things, and it was his responsibility to
> interpret correctly that she wanted him to do or say something very
specific.
> And he?d better get it right too, or there would be words later, and the
> words would be more code he had to interpret correctly, or else things
> would just go downhill from there.
> 
> I expressed that this was really difficult for me as it left so much room
for
> misunderstandings, and the stress of always having to be on my guard about
> those little subtleties would be too much for me to deal with on a daily
basis.
> He told me that I had better never marry then. I?ve taken his advice. :-)
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Feb 25, 2014, at 14:13 , Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:
> 
> > Some cross-cultural issues:
> >
> > <http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/how-to-say-this-is-crap-in-different-
> cultures/>