Human Beings
Human beings are complicated. Very often we do not even understand one another. There was a Japanese who once told me that the blind man was coming to his home which led me to think of a man with a white cane but what he actually meant was the contractor was going to fix his blinds. Another time, a Japanese expatriate came to my younger colleague and asked for information which everyone heard was "passport", "which is the passport?" So that colleague shot back "what passport are you talking about". What he actually asked was "which is the first port?" They don't say coffee but cohhee making their "f" sounds like "h". Say one person's "f" word is another person's "h" word. I wonder what would happen if a senior VIP in your office comes over to the shredding machine and pass you some important documents and point to the machine. As you slot them into the shredding machine and you c...