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Leapfrog
The other day I heard the prime minister said that he wanted to buy Liverpool Football Club because he wanted to see Thai sport to improve drastically, i.e., to “leap-frog”. I thought he said it wrong, grammatically it should be to “frog-leap”, to leap like the frog does. I looked up the dictionary today.
leapfrog
n. A game in which one player kneels or bends over while the next in line leaps over him or her.
leapfrogged, leapfrogging, leapfrogs
v. tr. 1. To jump over in or as if in leapfrog.
2. To advance (two military units) by engaging one with the enemy while moving the other to a position forward of the first unit.
3. To avoid by or as if by a roundabout route.
v. intr. To move forward or progress in or as if in leapfrog.
Ok, he is right about using English term (though he seems to overuse English terms when he talks to the public). But I don't think he is right about buying a football club as for the sake of improvement in sport. There is not shortcut in anything. Only hard work can guarantee a great long term success.
Capol Tunnel
Pi said that her arm was aching, possibly because of the long hour working on the computer, aka Capol Tunnel. This is something (if I remember correctly) about the vein around the wrist area getting constricted because it was pressed (or rested) against hard surface too long. Hence then the blood circulation to the hand and fingers is limited. You will have difficulty moving or controlling your hand and fingers, you get numbness over hand and arm.
I thought this word was spelled “coppa tunnel” but I looked up the dictionary and could not find it. Capol tunnel is not in the dictionary either. However, I looked up on the internet and found the term. Yes, it's capol tunnel.
On the story of why I thought it was “coppa tunnel”... At first, I only heard some people talking, and I thought it was “copper tunnel”. I thought, oh, ok, your tunnel (vein) turns copper, so the blood can't flow too well. That makes sense. Wasn’t that (my reasoning) funny? :-) But then the person whom I talked to wrote it down for me, here “coppa tunnel”. The person was American, so I registered the term to my memory without checking the dictionary.
I was still naive those days, to think American people know how to read and write English. :-)
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