Last week at work, my boss was in a phone meeting with someone in Malaysia. We were in the next cube and can hear him loud and clear. Then he went... "I feel hot today"... My friend Pol & I burst out in laughter saying... "Whaaatt? You're HOT today?" That was the joke of the week! --- See, phone meeting bloopers happen a lot at work, especially since English isn't our first language. My friend Carl, in one of his first "international" phone meetings was asked the question... "How's the weather there?" He went, "It's shiny!" -- Then stopped thinking...that was supposed to be 'sunny', right? He couldn't get over that. He's still having nightmares up to this day, right Carl? Hehehe... I guess it's a lot simpler to write in English than to spontaneously speak it, simply because, when writing, you've got time to edit -- a luxury that you don't have when talking. There's no "Cut! Wrong word, try again..." My mom knew this, and tried to help us kids by declaring that at dinner, one day of the week, we were to speak English....you know, basic stuff like, "Ate Tata, please pass the soy sauce". School also tried to help by requiring us to speak English, well at least in English class. 1 word spoken in Visayan or Tagalog would be fined. I don't remember the rate, but I do know that most of us chose to say "Can I borrow your pen?" than get fined. Must have been significant. But see, despite those measures, I am still not immune to blooper incidents in phone meetings. And I guess, nor are my friends at work. There will always be slips... which I think is great because we will always have something to laugh about! ------Ahem, just want to warn everybody though: Beware of Boss Bobet.... He's HOT these days! hehehe...