Feeling better?

A hazard of posing as a wordsmith is that one is invited to lectures and cultural exchanges and expected to comment socio-linguistically.

Here is a recent attempt at humour - fortunately by a woman of beauty, making it easier to rustle up a Gordon gorgon smile.

On the differences between the speech-making habits of different nations:

Germans will speak soulfully of Kant and Beethoven

Americans colloquially of space and territory

Norwegians poetically of mountains and fish

Russians proudly of industry and sport

British will speak only about the weather, and then to condemn it.

She had more:

What women of different nations are meant to say after love-making:

Frenchwoman ~ 'What, finished so soon?'

Scandinavian ~ 'My sadness has almost gone away'

American ~ 'Great, what did you say your name was?'

Russian ~ 'You have made a great contribution'

German ~ 'Okay, now let's eat'

Englishwoman ~ 'Feeling better, darling?'