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

Dan Jones scripsit:

> 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.
Quite so.  AFAIK the U.S. equivalent is simply known by the generic
term "manager", the same as if it were a supermarket or a laundromat.

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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