Subj : Truck crash?
To   : Dallas Hinton
From : Alexander Koryagin
Date : Thu Aug 22 2019 10:52:18

Hi, Dallas Hinton!
I read your message from 21.08.2019 23:03

 DH> A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus
 DH> crashed yesterday losing its entire load. Witnesses were stunned,
 DH> startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked,
 DH> rattled, paralysed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed,
 DH> dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed,
 DH> confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless,
 DH> and perplexed.

I wonder, however, how to choose a word from the list. ;-) They also forgot 
about bamboozled, flummoxed, giddy, at sixes and sevens, discombobulated, 
dismayed, appalled, awe/thunderstruck, wordless, tongue-tied, inarticulate and, 
I suppose many others. It have given me an idea that there is something special 
in English culture concerning how often people have surprises. ;-)

Bye, Dallas!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2019

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