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You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett. The other day I was telling a friend about an experience that I had in which I ended up

standing there surprised and disappointed and looking kind of forlorn and at a loss. And she said,

oh, ordered and not picked up. And I said, what?

And I was so confused when she said that.

But then we finally realized that she's a native German speaker.

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