Darren New wrote:
> My wife already had a Masters in Computer Science before coming to the
> USA, and she learned a lot of English by studying the GREs. Early on,
> one day, she leaned over to me and said "Look at the sweater of the man
> with the sparsely distributed hair."   "The word is 'bald'."  "Oh, OK."

	Don't exclude the possibility that she was being technical (I take it
she was in a PhD program once if she studied the GRE?). I've seen native
speakers sometimes speak that way in those circles.

	

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