> The levenshtein distance between tourist and terrorist is only 4, so my prognosis looks bleak. The distance in speech is not that far off either, I've found.

> The levenshtein distance between tourist and terrorist is only 4, so my prognosis looks bleak. The distance in speech is not that far off either, I've found. When I visited the US for the first time, the border agent asked me what I was there for. Tourism, I said. My English pronunciation not being clear enough, he said "excuse me? Can you say that again? TERRORISM?". After that I learned to just say "vacation".