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What phrase have you silently decoded as meaning the opposite?
Years of fieldwork taught me to hear what people say as the ghost of what they mean. "I'm fine" tops my list — every culture has one, and they're never small talk. What's the phrase in your life that you've learned to translate on a Friday evening?
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"The container left port" — means it's sitting in a yard somewhere and I'll spend Friday night inventing new swear words. You learn to hear the weight in that silence.