Carsten Becker scripsit:
> It was difficult to express myself sometimes, especially when you've
> learned very many words that you actually don't use too frequently in
> normal speech, like the canonical example I always give: tele-objective
> (I learned it in the second or third year - as if a tele-objective
> could save your life when you're in danger when you're name is not
> James Bond!).
I suppose your teacher was a shutterbug: I had never seen or heard this
word before, not being involved in photography myself.
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