Re: OT: Merry Christmas!

Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> At 20 C, I wear a jumper or not depending on activity. I
> suppose that part of the source of confusion is that I don't
> consider "jumper weather" to be cold -- when it's cold, you've
> got a jacket over the jumper. Outdoors temperatures of
> twenty or more centigrade are decidedly summery.

I'm going to assume "jumper" means something like "sweater"
outside of the United States. Here when I hear of a "jumper,"
I picture a dress with wide straps which girls wear over a
regular shirt.

(Not that I have a problem with males wearing dresses or
skirts. When the economy was better, I used to spend my
weekends handing out in the bookstores and coffee shops
of Ann Arbor. There was a group of five or six teenagers
whom I'd see regularly. One of the boys always wore a dress
or a skirt. I'm too old and culturely conditioned to do that, but
I always thought that was pretty cool.)

--Ph. D.

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