Re: an announcement...

andrew wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> > omicron-upsilon, 'ou' /u/ or alpha-iota, 'ai' /E/). Now that I have a
> > Greek roommate (no, we don't live in the same room, only in the same
> > house. Can we say "house-mate"? :) ), I'm gonna add "Modern Greek" on my
> > resume :) (with Dutch I hope :) ). She already taught me some words and
> >
> I refer to the people I share the house with that we rent as 'flatmates'.
> This term seems to be conditional on an outside party owning the house,
> otherwise we would be boarders or lodgers...
>
        "Flatmates"... Although I learned that flat meant "apartment", at least
your explanation fits exactly to our situation. Thank you for this word.

> - andrew.
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