Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

From: "Jake X" <starvingpoet@...>
> Subject: Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?
> > Yes, but Americans are much more inclined to use the word "vacation"
> > instead of "holiday" for that concept. In the USA, IME, "holiday"
> > usually refers to religious holidays rather than any time away from work
> > or school that isn't just a weekend.
>
> Not just any amount of time.  In my experiance it must be at least a week
> to be called just "vacation."  Shorter than a week but longer than a day
> gets a time modifier (like "three-day vacation"), while a single free day is
> just "the day off."  I'm sure this varies regionally.  (I'm from new Jersy
> in NE US).
It's "the day off" or "a long weekend" for people with jobs, and it's "break"
for people at school.  Anything longer than "spring break" (one week) is
vacation (tho basically this means summer and Christmas).

And even if the time period is short, it's still a vacation if travel is
involved, so long as none of "home", "work" or "school" are a major part of it.

    *Muke!
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