NYC polymeet 9/10-9/12

[Provost Harrison]

Precisely, it is not a gap for something like a donkey.

[Al B. Sure!]

Arsehole also has extra letters.

What does arse mean? Why don't you just say ass?

[Cort Haus]

An ass is a donkey. As arse is a bottom.

We don't say ass when we mean arse because we speak english.

[duke o' york]

Bloody hell, a two month long polymeet is a bit ambitious, isn't it?

[MikeH]

How does "flat" make any more sense? What a bizarre country you have.

Because apartments are called flats. Duh.

[MRT144]

A self-contained living space occupying a single storey or part of a single storey. Not exactly two-dimensional, but flatter than a house.

I suppose apartment-mate is a bit unwieldy, but no excuse for the errant nonsense that is 'room-mate'.

What do you call an abode that occupies the same floor as another person's abode? Split flat?

[Al B. Sure!]

To be clear, roommates in a dorm actually share a ROOM so the word is very accurate. This is a typical college dorm:



Do you British do things differently?

[MRT144]

To be clear, roommates in a dorm actually share a ROOM so the word is very accurate. This is a typical college dorm:



Do you British do things differently?

Is that swayze on the wall?

[Al B. Sure!]

looks like it.

And incorrect description. He shall henceforth be known as The Swayze.

[Al B. Sure!]

Here's UNC Chapel Hill dorms in 1950 which were 4 to a room:

[Cort Haus]

What do you call an abode that occupies the same floor as another person's abode? Split flat?

It's also a flat. See "or part of a single storey".

[Cort Haus]

To be clear, roommates in a dorm actually share a ROOM so the word is very accurate. This is a typical college dorm:



Do you British do things differently?

Yes. We have a wall running down the middle there.

[Al B. Sure!]

Yes. We have a wall running down the middle there.

Well no wonder the term 'roommate' has no meaning to you all. Students in the US who live in college dorms are literally roommates.

I'm a little surprised that you Brits are that concerned with privacy that you get your own rooms when you're on campus. Do you also not have a communal bathroom?

[BlackCat]

To be clear, roommates in a dorm actually share a ROOM so the word is very accurate. This is a typical college dorm:



Do you British do things differently?

Honestly, back in 1980 I had more than half of that for myself including a bathroom with a shower

oh, and Im danish.

[Al B. Sure!]

Honestly, back in 1980 I had more than half of that for myself including a bathroom with a shower

oh, and Im danish.

Well in the US, I guess our college students live a Barracks lifestyle or something. Really surprised that crowded Europe has the space for college students to have their own rooms, not share bathrooms with an entire floor of students, etc.