Re: CHAT: Hymn to Ikea (was: Re: Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.

 --- Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...> wrote: >
From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@...>
> Subject: Re: Hymn to Ikea (was: Re: Re: CHAT:
> F.L.O.E.S.
>
>
> > Joseph Fatula:
> You'd be hard pressed to find a "lavatory" around
> here, though about half
> the people in this city would understand that "lava"
> means "wash"...  But to
> answer your question, a public bathroom would be
> either "vacant" or "in
> use", depending on its contents.
'Lava' means 'wash'? I thought it was molten rock or
baby insects, though I think the latter has at least
one R in there somewhere. (Phones can be either
engaged or busy here in free variation. Public toilets
say 'engaged' and 'vacant' I think, but I pay more
attention to the color. It's certainly usually one
longish word, so 'engaged' fits best.)

> > > > trolley
> > > I've never seen an Ikea, but I doubt they're
> large enough that people
> need
> > > trolleys to get around in them.  What does this
> mean when it isn't a
> sort
> > of
> > > train car that runs on a city street (usually
> pulled by a cable buried
> in
> > > the asphalt)?
> >
> > What do you call them? Carts? Like you wheel round
> in airports and
> > supermarkets.
>
> Yeah, they're called "carts" or "shopping carts".
> Though I still haven't
> got used to living in California - here they're
> "baskets".  Which was
> particularly disturbing when I worked at a store
> that _sold_ baskets, and
> I'd send customers to that part of the store when
> they asked for one.
> Serves 'em right.
> Then again, what do you call the sort of car that
> I'm calling a trolley?
It doesn't sound much like a car to me. Cars are those
things with four wheels and generally five seats that
people own and drive around (even passenger vans (i.e.
ones with eightish seats) are stretching the
definition of 'car'). Or of course toy versions and
the like. What you call trolleys I call trams, though
they're generally powered from above. An individual
part of a train is a carriage. (I use trolley the same
way And does.)

> > > > settee
> > > Goatee?  Something that has been set?
> >
> > Sofa? Couch? Chesterfield? I forget what you call
> them. They
> > sit on them all the time in Friends.
>
> Haven't seen it, though I know what a sofa/couch is.
>  Chesterfield sounds
> like something you made up just to yank my chain,
> but that probably means
> it's a real English word.
Lol! I always call 'em seats, sofas or couches. Seats
being generic.

> > --And.
>
> Out of curiosity, does your name (in its short form,
> And) have the vowel of
> "halve, pass, bath" or that of "hat, have, lath"?
> Or is it something else
> entirely?
I've always used the vowel in 'ban, fan, stand',
making a minimal pair [&:] vs [&] with 'and' when
fully pronounced. But I'm not And, so I wouldn't know.

--
Tristan.

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