Thursday, February 7, 2013
Story of the Day 1/ 16/ 2013 #2
My daughter has just taught me something, the problem is that I can't use it.
Most of my conversations are in English, spoken English.
If it was only learning how to finger spell it, I might manage, but I have no idea how to pronounce it.
It is a French phrase: L'esprit de l'escalier or l'esprit d'escalier
Literally, it means staircase wit.
What it really means is having a slow to fire brain, and coming up with a good retort, too late.
I explained to my daughter that it is a wonderful phrase, but since I have no idea how to say it, I will not be able to use it.
My daughter looked at me like as if I came in from the Stone Age.
You see, as she explained to me, there is a function on the internet that will teach me how to pronounce it. I can access that and listen until I have it down correctly.
I am, astonished.
Not that they have created this function of application or whatever.
But that my profoundly deaf daughter who neither speaks nor hears knows about it.
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Why should it surprise you that your highly intelligent and technologically savvy daughter would know about this? if you look up foreign words, often there are pronunciation guides included. I see the irony but I'm not surprised at all at the adeptness of your daughter in the digital world. :)
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