Irregular expressions

I went to Limerick as one of a group of four. One of the others, by the name of M., was to be my assistant. A dutiful and responsible person, on the whole, but very given to worrying about her performance in just about every situation (not without reason, I'd say, but never mind), very easily frightened and intimidated. A constant worry of hers was that her English might be laughed at. Irish undergrads, by the way, will laugh at almost anything, however trivial. That's just the way they are. But it can be embarrassing.

We were teaching two courses, Artificial Intelligence (one I'll tell you about some day) and Compiler Design (the one I'm about to tell you now).

( Fun and (word) games )