Re: Language disfunction (Re: Comprehending British dialect)


11 Sep 1995 18:59:28 -0700

In <430vpk$pie@nic.lth.se>, mol@marvin.df.lth.se (Magnus Olsson) writes:
>Similarly, the dumbwaiter in "Curses": The Americans complain that
>they don't know what it is. But how many British players had to look
>it up?

I've never been to England, but I thought dumbwaiter was a rather
common concept in the U.S., and to date I haven't had any complaints
from players of "Veritas" about its dumbwaiter puzzle. I just assumed
that most people understood what a dumbwaiter is.

Jim
jreese@leland.stanford.edu