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You Americans really ought to sort out your stupid ways of saying things!
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Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith -
Why? We've simplified. No need for a whole different word when one will suffice to convey the meaning to anyone with proper deductive reasoning.
Tutto nel mondo è burlaComment
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Yeah, a truck's a truck, not a truck AND a lorry.
I'm consitently stupid- Japher
I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- NedComment
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Ha! Only a stupid red stater would confuse the great Emperor, Shi Huangdi, with a commie. But you probably don't know better since the only source of news in Indiana is talk radio. You have no hope, just get back to your normal afternoon routine of going hunting, not killing anything, hitting a deer with your pick up truck on the way back, and then eating the deer!Oh, you crazy wannabe Chinese types. Maybe if the Communist party didn't still dictate what you can and can't say, you could create (and interpret) an original thought.
"I'm moving to the Left" - Lancer
"I imagine the neighbors on your right are estatic." - SlowwhandComment
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No, roommate would refer to someone you'd share a room with, a housemate a house and a flatmate a flatOriginally posted by Boris Godunov
Why? We've simplified. No need for a whole different word when one will suffice to convey the meaning to anyone with proper deductive reasoning.
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Yes, housemate. I tend to use American English, because that's what people (not quaint tourist objects living in a dinky island) use.
"Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the worldComment
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In Swedish, we call it "rumskamrat" (roommate), even though a more correct term would be something like "lägenhetssammanboende"
The enemy cannot push a button if you disable his hand.Comment
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Well don't.Originally posted by Stefu
Yes, housemate. I tend to use American English, because that's what people (not quaint tourist objects living in a dinky island) use.
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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:shakes stick at Poly Eurocoms:Visit First Cultural Industries
There are reasons why I believe mankind should live in cities and let nature reclaim all the villages with the exception of a few we keep on display as horrific reminders of rural life.-Starchild
Meat eating and the dominance and force projected over animals that is acompanies it is a gateway or parallel to other prejudiced beliefs such as classism, misogyny, and even racism. -General LuddComment
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lägenhetssammanboende
god bless germanic languages, and the ability to pile words ad nauseum.Comment
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I was a roommate with 3 other people, concurrently housemates with 11 other people. Not bad going for a 2 bedroom terraced house with only one shower.Originally posted by Provost Harrison
You share a room?
With two other people Yikes, that would drive me insane!
One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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We don't have flats here. We have apartments. roommate is far easier to say than apartmentmate.Originally posted by Provost Harrison
No, roommate would refer to someone you'd share a room with, a housemate a house and a flatmate a flat
I guess they could call themselves living roommmates.
Since that is the room they share........
Or bathroommates.
ACK!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!Comment
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In the circumstance of an apartment or studio flat saying roommate isn't really misleading.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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No, roommate would refer to someone you'd share a room with, a housemate a house and a flatmate a flat
Like Boris pointed out, we've simplified. Roommate stands for all! After all, 'room' doesn't have to stand for one room in an apartment, but can mean a space as well“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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As I demonstrated in one of my above posts, the distinction often aides extra information though.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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