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AndyH
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No problem! Sorry if I wasn't clear. I posted before my morning cup of coffee!  |
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gaijinalways
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| No worries. After reading it again, I should have assumed that is what you meant. Funny, my students actually usually use a*s*s*u. |
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saloc
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:15 am Post subject: |
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| I have a question about "muffler" which the Japanese use for what I would call a scarf. Where I come from people don't use the word muffler in that sense, but I wondered if it was maybe used by native speakers in some parts of the world. So, do any of you call a scarf a muffler, or would you say it is Japanese? |
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markle
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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| saloc wrote: |
| I wondered if it was maybe used by native speakers in some parts of the world. So, do any of you call a scarf a muffler |
Not me personally But it is a fairly common, if a bit dated, way of describing a woolen scarf. |
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saloc
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks - it's one of those words kids sometimes come out with in class and I never know whether I should correct it or not. |
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AndyH
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:44 am Post subject: |
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| My (Japanese) wife still calls it a "muffler", despite the fact that I've corrected her a couple of times. She learned English via NOVA and one year of school in London. |
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