[talk-au] Causeways

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Mon, 25 May 2009, Stephen Hope wrote:
> Just be grateful you're not trying to teach English to some-one who
> speaks Melanesian pidgin.  There's no distinction there between a
> bridge, a pier, a jetty, etc.  If it's man-made and it's elevated,
> it's a bris.  Trying to explain why English uses different words for
> what to them is the same thing was difficult.
>
> Stephen
I understand. We deal daily with Italians, Sikhs, Turks, 50 + ethnic groups, 
the English-speaking are a minority here.

-- 
BOFH excuse #352:

The cables are not the same length.

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