Something light for Sunday

When I look at the photo through my eyeglasses, I see Einstein. When I look without my glasses, I see Ms. Monroe. (Although, to be honest, that face looks less like Marilyn Monroe and more like retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.)

On a side-note, you see that this says it is a test for shortsightedness. Perhaps to be clear it should say a test for myopia. At any rate, although in some places those of us who suffer from myopia are said to be shortsighted, in the States we usually say that such people are nearsighted. When we estadounidenses say someone is shortsighted, that means such a person does not anticipate how things will turn out and so does not see the long term. In this sense it is the opposite of foresight.

And on yet another side note, estadounidenses is the word some Spanish-speaking people in the Western Hemisphere use to designate citizens of the United States (Estados Unidos). All those who live in North, Central and South America are Americans, but the English-speaking world tends to reserve that term for those of us from the U.S. of A. Some Spanish-speakers calls us norteamericanos, for North Americans. But of course that would include Canada and Mexico, insofar as Mexico is located within the North American tectonic plate. And lots of people all over the world call us by many other names, as we are all too well aware.

But we are getting way off track here ...