Margaret and Andrew Trade Secrets, Explained：take this the wrong way

What's really going on

For all the talk of rehearsing their story, this is the first time the two of them stop performing for each other. The facts one of them lists — never played a video game, reads Wuthering Heights every Christmas, hasn't slept with a man in over a year and a half — are useless for an immigration officer. They are the opposite: things you only tell someone you are starting to trust. The reply that lands is "Just processing," which sounds deadpan but is really the sound of someone re-seeing the person beside him. The power balance has also flipped. All day she gives the orders; here she is the one offering up embarrassments, and he gets to decide how to answer. The romance is not in what they say but in the fact that they bother to say it.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Ask personal questions with what s the deal with.
• Use come up with for ideas or details.
• Soften criticism with take this the wrong way.
• Hear the difference between out of nowhere and run into.

発音のポイント

• out of — liaison
• with you — weak form
• come up — weak form