“Pigs is Pigs” by Ellis Parker Butler

Thank you, Teacher Lee, for your notes in our group chat:

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Me = T.Lee
From Me to Everyone: 11:04 AM
Everyone has a role. I am just English consultant.
From Ivan Korjavin to Everyone: 11:05 AM
brb in 3 sec
From Ivan Korjavin to Everyone: 11:06 AM
let’s record that
From Diana Yarmolinska to Everyone: 11:07 AM
consignee
25 cents
30 cents for livestock
From Me to Everyone: 11:08 AM
lot of paperwork
From Diana Yarmolinska to Everyone: 11:08 AM
red tape
From Me to Everyone: 11:10 AM
guinea pigs multiplied rapidly
bureaucratic rules
From Vasanth to Everyone: 11:11 AM
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From Me to Everyone: 11:17 AM
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They argued about the price.
Customer felt cheated by being charged a higher price.
Delays while arguing incurred extra charges
more pigs, more food, more storage costs. Who will pay these extra charges?
He said, “Uh oh. This woman is too smart.”
Bozhena is “hamming it up” today.
Many Americans will argue over pennies.
Bureaucracy is synonymous with “overregulation”.
Slows down productivity.
From Diana Yarmolinska to Everyone: 11:18 AM
till they are blue in the face
From Me to Everyone: 11:20 AM
Argue until he is “blue in the face” (out of oxygen).
Long lines of people at the tax office.
The form is an old revision.
From Vasanth to Everyone: 11:20 AM
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From Me to Everyone: 11:26 AM
Bozhena is a sketch artist? 🙂
“Red tape” is excessive paperwork required by a bureaucracy (the government).
You stall them.
Lax regulations…
You would never swim in my pool business.
The enforcement of the rules is lax.
lot of paperwork in Vasanth’s post office
Double standard: Customer has to do a lot of paperwork to received money but the post office doesn’t have to do much paperwork to receive money.
From Vasanth to Everyone: 11:27 AM
I have an example of ridiculous rule. But not from Post office.
From Me to Everyone: 11:29 AM
Ivan is just contrary. Likes to stir up trouble.
We “fill out” a form.
From Ivan Korjavin to Everyone: 11:30 AM

He was a normal boy and therefore always had a guilty conscience when his father was angry

From Me to Everyone: 11:33 AM
a guilty conscience = you feel like something is your fault
Bad kids don’t feel guilty.
Wife was intimidated by the husband
Dad was somewhat tyrannical?
He was frugal or a cheapskate.
From Thein Lin Aung to Everyone: 11:34 AM
Maybe short tempered
From Me to Everyone: 11:34 AM
She wants attention.
From Ivan Korjavin to Everyone: 11:34 AM
I’ll have to get authority on this thing
From Me to Everyone: 11:35 AM
to get authority for something or to do something
From Ivan Korjavin to Everyone: 11:36 AM
“Sell no pigs,” Morgan wired.

Wired? Phoned? Interneted? Lettered?
From Me to Everyone: 11:36 AM
wired or wireless
From Vasanth to Everyone: 11:36 AM
It might be telegram?
From Me to Everyone: 11:37 AM
physical mail = post
From Ivan Korjavin to Everyone: 11:37 AM
borne
her husband’s tone convicted her of the guilt of having borne and reared a
From Me to Everyone: 11:38 AM
to bear = to carry
bear/bore/born (AE)
From Ivan Korjavin to Everyone: 11:38 AM
meekly
Doorsill
From Me to Everyone: 11:38 AM
airborne = carried in the air
From Ivan Korjavin to Everyone: 11:38 AM
avenger
From Me to Everyone: 11:38 AM
door sill = the bottom edge of a doorway
From Ivan Korjavin to Everyone: 11:38 AM
Flung out
From Me to Everyone: 11:38 AM
to avenge = to get revenge
From Ivan Korjavin to Everyone: 11:38 AM
eral
pertinent
consignment
From Me to Everyone: 11:39 AM
fling/flung/flung = to throw
to consign = to deliver/ship
pertinent = relevant, germane