Maybe I was fishing for the word, ‘strands’? I ever so often get lost in translation. It’s tough, I can tell you. It’s often a mixed feeling of being a literal underdog and a moron, communicating online. But it’s good, though. A ten.fold more effective than the “school-english” I was being taught back in the 80s, where the teachers sounded worse than Arnold.
Yes, Swedish is my native tongue. Funny thing, searching on Google for “hair straws” reveals that there seems to be a common thing among non-english citizens to use that term. In my case, swedes say “hÃ¥rdstrÃ¥” (eng: “hair” and “straw” put together in one word) which means… well… it’s the million dollar question: hair? strands?
Anyway. :-) I was just wondering why the body reacts with such negative reflexes against hair (straws ::P) in the throat. They mean no harm, and they are hardly in the way for other things to pass down the chasm to the stomach, or into the lungs. In essence, it seems like a figmental threat, more than a real one, as far as internal body defense goes.