Miami Art Fairs, the busy-buzzy art days in Miami are over. 24 fairs, more or less related
to the Arts. Anyone who made the 24? I constantly reported some ideas and stories –
and selected my tops for you. Focus: Tricky language (believe it or not).
All written ex post, not “postfaktisch (loan rendition of your “post truth”) – this is another thing and the “Word of the Year 2016” in Germany. The British, the editorial team of the noble Oxford English Dictionary, were a little bit faster here in predicting it
(November 2016 already).
So, here we go with my POST, believe it or not:
Pizza, Pizza!
Late night Pizza order on the phone:
“Hello, like to order three pizzas: Two Venezia, one Gold, small size please.”
“OK, two pizzas Venezia.”
“No, three pizzas: Two Venezia number 14, one Gold number 2, small size.”
“OK, tres pizza quatorce.”
“NO – tres pizzas: Two number 14, quatorce, yes, one number 2!”
“OK, tres quatorce, Gold we don’t have.”
“But Gold is on your menue!”
“Ah, sorry, yes… tres pizzas quatorce and uno Gold, OK?”
“NO! Dos quatorce, uno Gold!”
“Yes, entonces dos quatorce, uno Gold, small size.”
Guess what had been delivered? One Gold… OMG.
Stuffed? We were, the Pizza in fact was a big one in our eyes, here is one more…
(I admit, another fair, but with all these fairs, you can get really confused sometimes…):
“I like all the staff you have.”
“Thank you – we are proud to show all these works here – any work you are especially interested in?”
“Ah no, I mean, your STAFF, the people you have.”
“…” 😉