• stranger: so what do you do?
  • me: I am a linguist!
  • stranger: oh I know all about language, let me tell you my observations.
  • me: no I mean I have been intensively studying this for nine years, you don't
  • stranger: have you ever noticed how
  • me: ...
  • stranger: some people say "soda" and
  • me: you don't say.