From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!miker@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Interlanguage Homophones
Article-I.D.: nsc.210
Posted: Thu Jul 29 11:11:56 1982
Received: Mon Aug  2 01:14:53 1982


I once attended a lecture given by a Japanese gentleman from Bell
Labs.  At several points he used the phrase "bare rubber trees", and
it took me quite a while to realise he was referring to his employer!
					Michael Robinson