speakee english

at the 'opera in the park' performance in the botanic gardens on saturday, the emcee proudly announced about 17 times that they were soon going to be putting up turandot, final 't' vocalized and aspirated. at first it was just kind of weird and funny, but by the end of the show none of us were convinced any more that the 't' actually was silent, and had to go and look up just to make sure. solomon asch's findings in action!

also:

the brother: so what does quanto e bella translate to? "when is the girl?"
me: that's a bit metaphysical.
the other brother: "how much is the girl?"