Re: Nur-ellen in the world of Brithenig (was Re:Nur-ellen universes)
From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
Date: | Friday, September 1, 2000, 19:11 |
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:36:03PM -0400, Padraic Brown wrote:
>[snip]
>> That's what I had in mind, more or less. Perhaps I should have said
>> "Cars, certainly, and big lorries with surly and muscular drivers
>> who are fond of catcalling and honking at any bird that walks by".
>[snip]
>
>Obigatory British-to-Amercian gloss: lorry = truck; lorries = trucks.
>
>Interesting how vocabulary differs from region to region... :-)
>
>(Sorry, just *had* to show off... now flame away! :-P)
Right. Tha didn't tell em what a "bird" is!
Padraic.
>T