Thursday, December 11, 2014

"She es node ite"

This is a re-post of an unusually popular post: "I made a call this morning to inquire after a young Church adherent who was admitted to hospital. The domestic worker said: 'She es node ite.' I asked if she could repeat that. She said more emphatically: 'She es node ite!' Did she mean: 'She has not died,' or 'She is not right'? OBSERVATION: I came to know the answer afterwards: 'She has now died.' (My biggest confusion happened when a member told me: 'My son has passed!' I thought that he had passed his exams, and congratulated her. He had passed on).

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