![]() I planned to debut it at lunch - toss it out coolly, as if it had just dawned on me. I had convinced myself that delivering these words with the same lax-lipped American insouciance that the kids on my favorite family sitcoms had would transform me into a bubbly all-American girl who laughed down hallways with pals, instead of a Lebanese oddball whose classmates steered clear of. Recesses came and went, and my quest to perfect it continued. ![]() I tried comically extending the “whaaaat?” I tried curling the end slyly into a question or dropping it in a deadpan. I repeated the phrase, “Say what?” - an expression of shock I’d heard many times on TV - over and over to no one. Hanging upside down on the monkey bars of my elementary school playground in Missouri, I practiced a morsel of slang I found so intoxicatingly American, I had to have it for myself. ![]() To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. ![]()
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