先日、”いちばんすきな花”第7回放送後に書いた、「答え合わせ」について、エピソードを一つ。
私が英会話教室主催の旅行に行ったときのこと。
先生から出された課題のEnglish riddleの中に、”What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?" というのがあった。
”2文字加えると短くなる言葉はなあに？”ということで、さんざん頭ひねったあげく、閃いた。
私が絞り出した答えは、”Pants”！
”t”の後ろに”ie"を加えると、なんと”Panties"！パンツよりかなり短くなるよね、パンティ！
これしかねーやろ⁉
だけど、先生の正解は、”Short"（>"Shorter"）だった。
正解を教えてもらうことよりも、自分で考えることの方がずっと楽しい、という教訓。
問題を出す人も答えを探る人も、結局、自己満足なんじゃないか？
それを認め合うことこそ、正解というんじゃないかな？
藤井風さんならきっと、うなずいてくれると思う。
The other day, after the 7th episode of "Ichibannsukina Hana" aired, I wrote an episode about "answer matching".
This happened when I went on a trip sponsored by an English conversation class.
One of the English riddle assignments my teacher gave me was"What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?"
"What is a word that becomes shorter when two letters are added?" So, after a lot of thinking, I had an idea.
The answer I came up with was “Pants”!
Add “ie” after “t” and you get “Panties”!
Panties are much shorter than pants.
This is the only option!?
However, the teacher's correct answer was "Short" (>"Shorter").
The lesson is that it's much more fun to think for myself than to be told the correct answer.
In the end, both the person asking the question and the person searching for the answer do for self-satisfaction, right?
Isn't it correct answer to accept it each other?
I'm sure Fujii Kaze would nod.
