Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.
| From: | Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 22, 2004, 15:06 |
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As long as you do not assume that *For Heaven's sake*
should refer to some Japanese beverage, the situation
remains under control.
--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -Mark
=====
Philippe Caquant
"Le langage est source de malentendus."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
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