Conversational AE (APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY)

[Mick Harper]

There is a further AE lesson. [Further, Mick? Dream on.] The family I spend Christmas with always have at least one badly behaved dog, some years more than one. They have never had a well-behaved dog in our joint adult lives.

When I point out that a gentle smack on the snout would solve most of their--and for three days, my--problems, they invariably say, year after year, "How would you like a smack on your snout?"