Re: Profiles (WAS: Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections)

From: "Dan Jones" <devobratus@...>
Subject: Re: Profiles (WAS: Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections)


> Joe Fatula wrote:
> >I think this would be what we call a bartender in the states... Though it
> >certainly wouldn't apply to someone who runs an inn.
>
> That's odd. Over here a bartender is either a non-gender-specific word for
> someone who works behind a bar, although it's mainly applied to those who
> make cocktails. In the UK licencee isn't a bartender, but someone who
> *employs* bartenders.
Then the term "bartender" seems about the same across the Atlantic.  Over
here, the bartender would be employed by whoever owns the bar/pub/whatever.
If, for some reason, you were to have a middleman between the two, I think
it would just be called the manager of that pub.