Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 30.03.2020 22:30

  AH>> hesitate to suggest he use the word "yeah" or add "hang on a sec",
  AH>> as I might do with family & friends.

  ak>> Well, if you have good relations with your office colleges
  AH> Usage note: "college" and "colleague" are two different words, but
  AH> if Anton is a college instructor his colleagues are other
  AH> instructors....

Ouch! :)


  ak>> I believe the trauma the Anton's college had got was connected
  ak>> exactly with such a confusion. He thought so hard on the
  ak>> word "directly" that he struck the door jamb with his forehead.

  AH> I believe one of the attractions of stories like this is that we're
  AH> simply told what happened & can't resist wondering about the reason
  AH> (s). Maybe Anton's colleague lost his bearings because his mind was
  AH> busy figuring out how to interpret "directly" in this context... or
  AH> maybe he had done the same thing so often he turned a bit too
  AH> abruptly. I have experienced both at home. What comes to my mind
  AH> first, however, is an incident where I happened to be present when
  AH> of my instructors received a very similar offer from a fellow
  AH> instructor. In the halls of academia you generally won't hear
  AH> people swearing although the curriculum may include novels your
  AH> parents wouldn't allow you to read when you were in high school.
  AH> For a person who overheard but didn't see what was going on, it
  AH> might be tempting to think the offer made to Anton wasn't
  AH> genuine.: - Q

Yes, the final of this story is out of our sights.

BTW, what about you? Do you have in Canada COVID19 quarantine for old 
people? Is it strict of something?

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
fido.english_tutor 2020
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