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

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Sunday, October 5, 2003, 0:49
David Barrow wrote:
> Tristan McLeay wrote: > >> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, James Campbell wrote: >> >> >> >>> Tristan praatha » >>> >>> >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>> 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). >>> >>> >> >> Now, that's a foreign idea. A house too small to fit in a laundry? >> > 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. :-)
Native speakers too. That seems like a pretty awkward phrasing.