So downstairs there was some idiot hollering at the Gwallishil Ajeoshi. Gwallishil Ajeoshi: this guy’s someone I’ve mentioned before, an older man who is something of a cross between a watchman, an ineffectual gatekeeper, and an information source. I asked him for a phone number for a repairman when the heating system was all screwed up in my flat. I popped down to ask him why the water was shut off one day. He gives hell to people who don’t dispose of their garbage properly. I can’t say for sure what the drunk guy was yelling at him about, but …
Month: June 2005
Isomeric
One of my students today used the work “isomeric”. (Which I find now, looking it up, means “of the opposite sex”.) She was trying to say, “self control”. I couldn’t understand what she meant until she finally decided on the synonym “self-control”. This, I explained, is what makes dictionaries so dangerous. Heh.