Tuesday, January 22, 2002

Mogsy spricht Deutsch!

The Evil Taskmaster Mogsy has just learned another German word. He just asked me the meaning of "genau", a word he heard Gerald, the network manager here, saying on the phone. His curiousity was piqued because apparently, Miriam, our hyper-efficient, hyper-helpful, hyper-nice PA, says it all the time too. It means "exactly", as I'm sure you were dying to know. This level of fluency in a managerial type is quite impressive. That means he now knows two German words. The other is "Quittung" (pronounced "Kvittung"). It means "receipt", which we all know is the most important word in a manager's vocabulary, no matter what the language is.