Random conversations throughout the day
Cassie, Do we have any other words for disabled? I have just finished a story about a candidate for elections who has one leg and one hand and wants to help the disabled. Can I say Disabled Runner Vows to Work for Disables?
Cassie, what is an epidemiologist?
Cassie, what is the name for a glove you wear when you have a bath?
me: is it rough?
colleague: It's called rough?
Cassie, do you know this word sona?
Me: No. What is it?
Colleague: Ok, so if you are very tired you go to a bathhouse and it's very hot and you feel better.
Me: Erm .. a sauna?
Cassie, what can we say where one disease is passed to another person?
Me: Infectious, contagious
Other colleague: Can't we also say communicable?
Me: Yep
Other colleague: And what is the difference between contagious and contiguous?
Cassie, sorry for disturbing you.
Me: It's ok, what's up?
Colleague: We should offer condolences to Muzhary.
Me: Why, what happened?
Colleague: He lost his mobile phone (rest of the office falls about laughing while I sit there thinking, I really don't get this .... )
Cassie, sorry for disturbing you
Me: It's ok
Colleague: Muzhary is going to his home in Ghazni this weekend
Me: Yes I know
Colleague: He isn't afraid of the Taliban
Me: Oh, and why is that?
Colleague: Because Taliban don't need to be afraid of Taliban
Cassie, if a person likes a sport, like cricket, do we have any word for this?
Me: Who wrote the headline "Air strike blows up house-borne IED in Kandahar"?
Colleague: Yes, it is me. What is wrong?
Me: It makes no sense. That's what's wrong. You're saying the house carried the IED.
Colleague: No, it means the house was rigged with bombs.
Me: No, it doesn't. What you have written is grammatically incorrect and impossible.
Other colleague: But Cassie, every thing is possible in Afghanistan.
Colleague: maybe it's a military term.
Me: (bangs head on the desk several times)
