****!

February 19th, 2009 Posted by john
Weston Master II Originally uploaded by RV Bob.

It just slipped out. I wasn’t even thinking about it. We were in the photography school and I was calibrating my camera (well attempting to calibrate it). I had bought a weston III light meter (which is forty years old) but during the calibration I kept having trouble with it. After half an hour’s use it stopped responding. “Hostia!” I said. Then I realised I’d sworn in Spanish rather than English (hostia is literally ‘host’ and could be translated as ‘bloody hell’). There was a new student there as well, Monica, and she was pretty impressed, seeing as my normal Spanish conversational level usually makes it pretty clear that I’m a foreigner.

Ricardo, the photographer said that the selenium in the light meter was probably exhausted. Damn, I mean, hostia!

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2 Comments

  1. Geoff
    February 20th, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    Are you dreaming in Spanish as well

  2. Martin
    February 20th, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    I often swear in Gibberish which is my second language. Fortunately no one understands me.

    On the light meter, will you be going back to Sunny 16 or spending money on a new toy?