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@ H. G. Muller[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bob Greenwade wrote on Tue, Dec 12, 2023 07:37 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 06:29 PM:

I guess Bob was triggered by the word 'actors' in the slide.

Yes, quite so. I'm aware of how that has a very different meaning in your context, but at first glance I thought you'd been in a short film or something.

Words having different meaning in different contexts can lead to a lot of humor. I once wrote a six-minute skit around the word "check," and the chess context was about the only one I couldn't fit in. Then there's when I was learning to sew, and saw instructions to baste the edge of a piece (meaning, in that context, to sew some stitches in that piece of fabric by itself to keep its curved edge from warping while it's being sewn to another piece -- and not to brush it down with gravy).