Five years later, I was back at SOAS, this time as staff, working on two Chinese computer research projects: Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis, and Computer-Aided Language Learning (CALL).
The Chinese Section had always frequented the SOAS bar — students AND lecturers. Students from the Japanese Section would join us, complaining that their lecturers were so boring, never going to the bar.
During one of these bar sessions, with Mr. Weys present as well, I was reminiscing about the old days, and mentioned the vase and results incident, saying, “It surprises me to this day how I managed to give you a hug and not break any of your ribs.”
Mr. Weys looked at me rather reproachfully, “And you’ve never repeated it since.”
(London, 1986)
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