On 02/03/2013 09:55 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> You didn't get this lecture?
> Nobody gave me any lecture whatever. Ever. Why would they? I'm an adult.
> Most people don't lecture other adults and that technique isn't even really
> effective with kids.

Hi Julie,

Interesting how a ill chosen word can have different
meaning to different people.

When I said "lecture", I meant the first meaning [1]:

1. a speech read or delivered before an audience
or class, especially for instruction or to set
forth some subject: a lecture on Picasso's
paintings.

But you heard the second meaning [1]:

2. a speech of warning or reproof as to conduct;
a long, tedious reprimand.

Fascinating.

-T

1) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lecture?s=t