Re: What do you call this?
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 1:52 pm
In German I'd call this a "Regal".
I'd be inclined to agree with you except that all the gaps in the picture are throwing me off.Zaarin wrote:A curio cabinet, I believe. Though if you're storing food in a curio cabinet, well...
If this were in a kindergarten instead of a living room, however, it would be called a "cubby." :p
Similarly in Polish, but I was just wondering what would happen if you wanted to refer to a bookcase/rack in English in a content-neutral way.hwhatting wrote:In German I'd call this a "Regal".
The different-sized nooks is what led me to believe it was a curio cabinet rather than a bookshelf...Pole, the wrote:Similarly in Polish, but I was just wondering what would happen if you wanted to refer to a bookcase/rack in English in a content-neutral way.hwhatting wrote:In German I'd call this a "Regal".
+1Vijay wrote:Too much sugar? :D
My favorite drink of all time waslinguoboy wrote:A dessert consisting of a sweet carbonated beverage poured over ice cream:
+1 The carbonated beverage is usually root beer but could be Coke. Of course, cream makes me sick so I don't eat ice cream.KathTheDragon wrote:An X float, where X is the carbonated beverage.
"It's the first time I see something like that so I don't have a name for it."linguoboy wrote:A dessert consisting of a sweet carbonated beverage poured over ice cream:
In Australia we call those spiders.linguoboy wrote:A dessert consisting of a sweet carbonated beverage poured over ice cream:
I'm very bad with vocabulary for furniture ... I dunno. Shelves? Shelving? Thingy? We have a big thingy in the kitchen that I have no idea what to call ... a big cabinety, cupboardy thing with glass doors and shelves and an open desky surface and cupboards underneath ... anyway, if you're putting food in it, then I'd call it "where the food is" when speaking naturally. The big thingy in my kitchen, I'd probably just call "where the plates are kept" or whatever when I need to refer to it. If I was telling someone who doesn't live here where to get stuff, I'd say "thingy" and then describe where in the room it is ... most likely with gestures because the words "left" and "right" require conscious effort for me.Pole, the wrote:Another question: how would you call this thing?
More: show
I don't know if the bit you wrote in white was only about the very last bit about Worms, or about the whole thing ... but anything box shaped is a box, regardless of what it's made of. I'm always amazed at the number of words Germans use for different kinds of boxes without any hypernym. I like hypernyms - they allow me to talk without looking for specific words.Pole, the wrote:It's not a box! Boxes are made of paper, are less durable and give significantly worse access to the items, if you want to put them in and take them out frequently!
And boxes made of wood are not boxes, but crates, and they are only ever used in Worms.
If what I just wrote sounds weird to you, that's basically how the last few posts here sound to me.
"Everything in Australia is trying to kill you" meme confirmed. O_OImralu wrote:In Australia we call those spiders.linguoboy wrote:A dessert consisting of a sweet carbonated beverage poured over ice cream:
Not even joking ...
Me, too.Imralu wrote:most likely with gestures because the words "left" and "right" require conscious effort for me.
Dammit, should have checked.Vijay wrote:Potholders
That's a 404.linguoboy wrote:Alright, new question! What are these?
https://www.tomasoabestratingen.nl/wp-c ... wv4ya0.jpg
I don't think the site likes external image embedding, but when I click the link, it works.linguoboy wrote:Alright, new question! What are these?
I've gone in twice and edited the URL. It works for a time and then stops working again.Vijay wrote:How come all of you can see linguoboy's post but I can't anymore?