Friday, February 10, 2006

Lost in translation

Last week I had to take a mandatory harassment prevent course. One of the examples we studied was about some one swearing in the work place. Does this constitute harassment?

Well, the discussion kind of slopped over into the break time. I brought up a discussion I had with CU2 a few months back. She asked me if what we commonly refer to as "the F word" was a bad word. I explained that in French, no, in English yes and that she couldn't think about using that word before she's 13. At 13 we'll discuss.

Which leads me to why she was confused. You see, at Christmas I gave CU1 a phoque en peluche.

Now there's a lesson in making something innocent sound, well, not very innocent!

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