Picture people sitting down together to talk something out until it is settled. That is the whole word: a gathering whose purpose is the talking. The first sense names a real council of Native American communities, where what is decided matters. English then points the same word at four colleagues by a desk, and the gap between those two pictures is exactly where the joke lives — and also why the joking use is worth handling with care.

可以想成一群人坐下來,把一件事講到有結論。這個字的全部就在這裡:一場以「談」為目的的聚會。第一個意思指的是北美原住民真正的議事集會,談出來的事情是算數的。英文後來把同一個字拿去指辦公桌邊的四個同事,兩個畫面之間的落差就是笑點所在——也正是為什麼那個開玩笑的用法要小心使用。

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