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Word of the Day (WOD) Winner
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Word of the Day (WOD) Winner
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Yesterday �s WOD winner is "Ishorton99" (Lindsey) who, in my opinion, came up with the most creative answer. So, congratulations to Lindsey!
The word was "batrachophagous"
Lindsey �s answer was:
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I�m going to answer this question with a story.
I
�m staying in a hotel in China while waiting for my apartment to be
ready. One night, about a week ago, the heating broke. It �s very cold
at the moment so I decided to go to reception to report the problem.
Upon exiting my room, I was attacked by a bat. (I say attacked - it
brushed my hair with its wings). I, of course, screamed and ran for the
lift. I made my way to reception where, through mime (the receptionist
didn �t speak English), I communicated the heating problem. He
communicated that it would be fixed by the next day. I then said, �Oh,
and there �s a bat on the 4th floor. � he looked at me blankly. �Bat. �
I repeated. Still a blank look. Being a good TEFL teacher, I tried
mime. Nothing. I indicated for a pen and paper and drew a fairly decent
representation of a bat. He still looked confused. I wrote the word
�BAT � and gestured to his translator. He looked it up and gave me a WTF
look. �I know! � I agreed. �Bat! �
I returned to my floor,
only to discover that the bat was now flying around. There wasn �t much
light and it was cold but I bravely tried to make it back to my room.
Halfway there, the fluttering of wings stole my remaining courage and I
ran back to the lift, frantically pressing the button to close the
doors. I returned to reception and tried to explain that I couldn �t get
to my room because of the bat. A security guard was dispatched to
accompany me. He went up with me in the lift and I cowered behind him as
we approached my floor. The bat was still fluttering about, but he didn
�t seemed fussed. �Good, � I thought. �He �ll take care of it. � He
opened the door to a nearby room. I was a little confused - should i
hide in there while he got rid of the bat? He then gave me a duvet.
�OK, � I thought. �This must be to catch the bat. � He indicated that I
should wrap it around me and that I wouldn �t be cold then.
That waas when I realised that they didn �t think the bat was important - the cold was what they thought I was worried about.
Batrochophagous
- the art of communicating to people who don �t speak your language
that there is a bat flying around the floor of your hotel!
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The real meaning is:
Batrochophagous (adj) /Bat`ra�choph �a�gous/ Feeding on frogs.
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18 Jan 2011
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Zora
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And best of all, it�s a true story!! Or so that was what a little bat told me!! LOL
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18 Jan 2011
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