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Zed
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 Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 4:03 am Post subject: Closet / Wardrobe How do you teach it? |
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Where I come from a closet is built into the structure of a building.
A wardrobe is a place to hang clothes and is portable.
In the absence of traditional closets in Korean apartments I have been teaching for 3 and a half years that a wardrobe is a closet.
What do you do about this or am I off base because of the local Canadian terminology? Does this have a different name elsewhere? |
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calypso
Joined: 31 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| I agree a closet is built in and a wardrobe is portable. I teach that the things in Korea are wardrobes. |
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hojucandy
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 4:35 am Post subject: |
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where i come from they are synonymous
so that is how i teach them....
a built-in wardrobe is called just that - a built-in wardrobe, or simply a "build-in". in the real estate ads it says BIR...
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kiwiboy_nz_99
Joined: 05 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| I teach them not to look into closets, they'll be surprised at the amount of Korean men they find in there ... |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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What do you call that utility area on the outside of highrise apartments? Koreans say 'verandah' but that doesnt seem right to me, & its not really a balcony.
& how about mandarin oranges? I've been correcting 'tangerine' but it seems like a losing battle. Maybe I'm wrong. But I notice boxes for export call them mandarins & I think of tangerines as a quite different fruit. |
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hojucandy
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| What do you call that utility area on the outside of highrise apartments? Koreans say 'verandah' but that doesnt seem right to me. |
i call it a balcony... so does everyine i know.
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| & how about mandarin oranges? I've been correcting 'tangerine' but it seems like a losing battle. Maybe I'm wrong. But I notice boxes for export call them mandarins & I think of tangerines as a quite different fruit. |
i call them mandarins. but i pronounce it mandareen with the stress on the last syllable... its a queensland thing i think. many people spell it manadarinein oz.
i don't really know what a tangerine is. i thought it was just the american name for a mandarine....
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| Tangerines are very seedy, slightly larger and have a different taste. |
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merryprankster
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| I worked as a furniture delivery person one summer and they just called them wardrobes. |
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hojucandy
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| Zed wrote: |
| Tangerines are very seedy, slightly larger and have a different taste. |
sounds like what we call a tangelo... they are rather sour - only good for juice..
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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I think of verandahs & balconies as projecting from a building. How about sunroom?
Well, my research now (Merriam-Webster) suggests tangerine can refer to mandarin, but maybe not vice versa. Its confusing. But yeah, the African tangerines (from Tangiers) are large, seedy, & tart.
Tangelo is a hybrid between a tangerine or a mandarin orange & a grapefruit.
How would you translate jjimjilbang? My students say 'steamroom' but I propose 'sweatroom' as more accurate. |
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hojucandy
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
Tangelo is a hybrid between a tangerine or a mandarin orange & a grapefruit.
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they taste bloody awful, and a really cheap.
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| How would you translate jjimjilbang? My students say 'steamroom' but I propose 'sweatroom' as more accurate. |
sauna. (which in itself is a finnish word)
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