Re: A question of semantics
From: | Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, August 13, 2003, 23:45 |
John Cowan wrote:
> Stephen Mulraney scripsit:
>
>
>>Like *soap*?. Are you serious?
>>
>>Err... (perhaps this makes the previous sentence less convincing)... which
>>one's cilantro? I mean, cilantro is American English for what tasty (non-soapy)
>>herb? I can't recall right now, though I usually know.
> Cilantro = coriander = Chinese parsley.
Ah, thank you. I thought of coriander, but dismissed it on the grounds that
it couldn't possible taste like soap, even to *homo superior*.
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