On Feb 13, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm certainly glad a smile is a smile and a laugh is a laugh the world > over. I was reading somewhere recently (can't find it) that another > universal, almost bordering on language, is the 'Uh' response. i.e. I don't > understand, I don't comprehend. Supposedly no matter your culture or > language, we all do this. > > On the subject of pigs being clean but we use the term to mean messy, dogs > being man's best friend but used as an insult, a while back we had a > gentleman at our local church who worked in management for Disney. Every > know and then I'd wryly ask him 'how's that Mickey Mouse outfit treating > you', he'd smile and tell me "very well". One day he confided with me that > Management at Disney were continually concerned and had failed to ever > figure out why it was that 'Mickey Mouse outfit' came to refer to something > dipolar to everything the company so diligently tried to represent. > > It's an inexplicable world we live in; which is again why I'm so glad > smiling and laughter is universal. Thanks for a *smile* to start my day, Kay. Devin Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
