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How to speak the one universal language on earth

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“Stupid airline.”

I only realized I’d mumbled the words out loud because a nearby fellow passenger looked at me and nodded in sympathy.

It was 11:22 pm and I was staring at the carpet in the Seattle airport, waiting to board my last flight of the day. It had been delayed three times, and we’d just been moved to a new ga…