Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 12:42:05 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <19981226124204.08495@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981225180656.05a34790@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Fri, Dec 25, 1998 at 06:11:13PM -0700 References: <4.1.19981225064918.05738f10@127.0.0.1> <Your <4.1.19981224112052.05a31740@127.0.0.1> <4.1.19981224174155.03dd8670@127.0.0.1> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <4.1.19981225064918.05738f10@127.0.0.1> <19981226021926.65101@welearn.com.au> <4.1.19981225180656.05a34790@mail.lariat.org>
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On Fri, Dec 25, 1998 at 06:11:13PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 02:19 AM 12/26/98 +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
>
> >Bugger that. We just call them by their right name: chips.
>
> Which is the word Americans use for what you folks in Oz
> and across the Deep Pond call "crisps."
Sort of. We know that they're called crisps because that's what's on
the bag, but we always call them chips because it's easier to say.
Only when necessary do we distinguish between the two types, by calling
the hot ones "hot chips".
> Never mind all the cognates for parts of cars, or
> the one for those purse-like contraptions one wears
> around one's waist.
Parts of cars are confusing, but the name the Americans use for
those purses is foul and disgusting even to my coarse Ozzie ears.
> As I was reminded this summer as I wandered around the
> UK on honeymoon, British and American are different
> languages. And Australian, Irish, and Scottish
> "English" are different still. ;-)
Yeah, but Australian, Irish, Scottish and English English don't present
so many problems in translation. The differences are mainly in
pronunciation. I can't think of a common word that is a bad swear word
in another of these English variants, for example, but I can think of
several between American and Australian/English/etc.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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