Friday 26 February 2010

Talk Past Each Other

I chatted with my English teacher and Italian friend about football. My English teacher said “City lost yesterday”, I said “Yes, I watched TV last night and Milan won.” then my Italian friend said “Yes, I was happy AC Milan won Manchester.”....

Actually my English teacher meant:
“Manchester City lost the match with Stoke.”
I watched the match “International Milan versus Chelsea”
My Italian friend mentioned:
“AC Milan won the match with Manchester United last week.”

All of us mentioned about different matches. I thought my Italian friend would be happy to hear that International Milan’s victory but she was a supporter of AC Milan so the victory of the rival team in the same area was rather bad news for her.

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