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What have I done?
Jan. 6th, 2012 01:39 pmOh, drat... we had a visiting group of Japanese high schoolers here, and I was invited to join them for lunch. Talk and lunch, that is -- I know we're the exotic entertainment. Faculty, that is.
So the second bunch that sat with me included a couple of young women. One industrial designer, one mechanical engineer interested in robotics. Interesting pair, quite cheerful. And when they excused us and started to rearrange for the afternoon session, another young woman came running up, clearly looking for them.
That's when I made the mistake. I said, "Here they are. We didn't eat them."
She turned to me and said, "What? What did you say?"
I repeated it, then translated it into Japanese. Then she said, "Why would you say that?"
And that's where things got complicated. Why do we joke about eating people?
So the second bunch that sat with me included a couple of young women. One industrial designer, one mechanical engineer interested in robotics. Interesting pair, quite cheerful. And when they excused us and started to rearrange for the afternoon session, another young woman came running up, clearly looking for them.
That's when I made the mistake. I said, "Here they are. We didn't eat them."
She turned to me and said, "What? What did you say?"
I repeated it, then translated it into Japanese. Then she said, "Why would you say that?"
And that's where things got complicated. Why do we joke about eating people?
