that's different

So everyone seems to  have enjoyed the presentation. One of the old guys who is retired but still keeps an office here. Said -different, as always. That's what I enjoy about your research. I don't know about elsewhere but 'different' has a lot of social meaning here. If you are the type of person that says ' gee that's different' you are indexing a deep conservatism that runs like a deep vein thrombosis in this county. N kinda didn't mean it that way. It was a complement but in our variety of English that so easily segues into a dismissal. 
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