It's still one of my favourite stories from High School.
Our English teacher was talking about one of his favourite playwrights. He wrote the name on the board and confidently said that no one would be able to pronounce it. The name was:
Guy de Maupassant
Casually, I raised my hand and said:
Gee du Muppasan
Yup, I knew how to pronounce the name of this guy.
Because he didn't know that we had a small library in our Tomas Morato house. We had an encyclopedia. One of them had an article dedicated to this French author who was best known for his short stories. Became curious about him. Asked my Lola Dita about him. And she was the one who taught me how to pronounce his name.
And that's how a random interest made me sound more knowledgeable.
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