What makes the world oscillate

A friend of mine has a sister who is a nurse. One day, she was switching on the standing fan in her sitting room when her nurse-sister shouted from across the room, "Or-see-late! Or-see-late!"

My friend went, "What?!"

Sister shouted, "OR-SEE-LATE!"

Friend went, "Huh?!!"

Sister went, "OR-SEE-LATE! Make the fan turn lah!"

Turns out that nurse-sister is used to seeing the word "Oscillate" on the switches of fans in the hospitals.

High Tech Vernacular

Email message: please unzip and upload.
(obviously referring to a ZIP file but...)

Conversation:
Colleague: "Are you coming with us for lunch?"
Me: "Now? I can't! I'm burning!"
(obviously referring to the CD-R I'm writing in that CR-R drive)

Question:
Me: "Have you finished burning?"
(obviously referring to that CD-R colleague is writing in that CR-R drive)

Pained Sour Face

Oops! I've seen it again. That face. That kind of face.

Recently, I sold my old SLR camera to a shop that collects these for resale. Of course I know it's only pure business sense for the owner to buy my camera at as low a price as I can bear so that they can resell it for a much higher profit. Then... deja vu, could it be the face that I once knew?

It never fails to to amuse me – that pained sour face in the owner – looking like a suffering soul, appealing to my sentiments in the hope that I would sell my goods at her price! If I give in, I get a faint smile, followed by the same pained look and a very grateful look.

But if I don't, I can expect that indignant look that says, "See if you can get it at a better price else!?"

The bargaining continues and I realise I've taken that pained sour face myself!