Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 19:33:58 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <4.1.19981225190800.058aee00@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <19981226124204.08495@welearn.com.au> References: <4.1.19981225180656.05a34790@mail.lariat.org> <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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At 12:42 PM 12/26/98 +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
>Parts of cars are confusing, but the name the Americans use for
>those purses is foul and disgusting even to my coarse Ozzie ears.
I realize that, to most other English speakers, the American term
sounds like a feminine hygeine product, or worse. But for us,
that connotation just isn't there! In fact, this week I heard
the word used, on the radio, as a euphemism for a term which is
considered to be only mildly risque in BOTH countries.
Shows how easy it is to make a faux pas(*) even when one is
speaking what is supposedly the "same" language.
--Brett
(*) Faux pas: In American football, to pretend to throw the ball
but not actually do so.
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