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Today’s Word: tactfully

Today’s Word: tactfully

June 5, 2018 =========

☆  tactfully   巧みに

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If you speak tactfully, it means that you speak carefully and try not to offend people. My friend and her husband are currently traveling in Tokyo and she just posted the most hilarious update on Facebook. Today is their first day in Tokyo, and she must have eaten something bad on the plane I guess, because her post says that she has had “the squirts” all day! There really is no way to say diarrhea tactfully, but “the squirts” is one funny way!

Her poor husband went to the drug store for her, but he cannot speak Japanese, so he had to “tactfully” use body language toRead more about Today’s Word: tactfully[…]