Useful and fascinating as usual. Yet I admit I sometimes I feel like a stranger in a strange land when I hear things like, "wow, did you see that baldacchino?!" Sometimes it feels like one of those gatherings where everyone affects the proper enunciations, saying things like, "Lunch? Why, let me check my shedjewel," as if, of course, we all talk this way all the time.
Useful and fascinating as usual. Yet I admit I sometimes I feel like a stranger in a strange land when I hear things like, "wow, did you see that baldacchino?!" Sometimes it feels like one of those gatherings where everyone affects the proper enunciations, saying things like, "Lunch? Why, let me check my shedjewel," as if, of course, we all talk this way all the time.
I've just enriched the cocktail conversations of countless individuals. :-)