Re: USAGE: [T] -> [f] (formerly Chinese Dialect Question)

Tristan McLeay wrote:

>On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, James Campbell wrote:
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>>Tristan praatha »
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>>>Ah, yes, I think I remember having this discussion on the net with another
>>>American (you funny people ... learn to speak the language! :P). The
>>>laundry here is where you keep the washing machine.
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>>Up/over here (i.e. in England) that would be the utility room (which sounds
>>like it should be where you keep the gas, water and electricity), unless
>>your house is too small to have a whole room dedicated to dirty water, cat
>>litter and coal, in which case the washing machine is in the kitchen (like
>>mine).
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>Now, that's a foreign idea. A house too small to fit in a laundry?
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A sentence that would have ESL learners asking what is the right size a
house should be to fit it in a laundry.  And thinking it's not just
English spelling that's insane. :-)

David Barrow

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