When I met my girlfriend, her English wasn't as good as it is now. She bought an electronic dictionary. We use the dictionary less and less, but I can never forget the first time we took her new dictionary to lunch.
We were talking about her mother. I...oh, so naive in those salad days...asked my girlfriend if she'd told her parents about me (we'd been together two weeks).The short answer was "no." The long answer was in broken English , with intermittent typing on the fresh, blue, Sharp electronic dictionary.
The translated words were:
"Xenophobic"
"A radically homogeneous nation"
and
"Mixed blood," as in babies of...