Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 22, 2004, 14:50 |
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 02:02:00PM +0100, Carsten Becker wrote:
> > As for James' word: He mentioned he went to a "sea-food" restaurant. When I
> > read "hake" I immediately thought that dish may be some kind of Sushi.
> > Perhaps that was what James thought it to be? "Hake" could pretty well be
> > Japanese, too.
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> You got us backwards. It was I who went to the seafood restaurant,
> and James who is driven nuts by the mispronunciation of foreign words.
> :)
>
> I did assume that the name was either Japanese or Hawaiian.
See now, I think the problem is not FLOES, but FNCUES: fish and chips
under-exposure syndrome. If America had its fair share or fish and chips
shops, you'd eventually have seen the word before being over-exposed to
foreign languages. (I don't think I've never seen a fish-and-chips shop
selling hake, or maybe I have, but they often have things floating around
about fish, and fish and chips isn't fast food unless you bother to ring
in advance :)
But I guess it wouldn't help if it was a cake called 'ike'... ('Ike' seems
an odd name for a cake. I'm being entirely hypothetical.)
--
Tristan.
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