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

John Cowan wrote:
>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.
Frankly, if someone called me a "manager", I'd slap them. The licenced
trade is very much more specialised- a simple degree in business studies
just won't do. You don't need to know how the stockmarkets work to change a
barrel. :o)

Dan

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