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From: custead@sask.UUCP (Der cuss)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: A bit of Japlish
Message-ID: <142@sask.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 22:51:38 EST
Article-I.D.: sask.142
Posted: Tue Dec  4 22:51:38 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 06:21:03 EST
Organization: U of Saskatchewan, Canada
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A quote from the instruction manual for my new watch, which has a
button for setting daylight saving time:

	"The summertime can be adjusted at one-touch."

	(if only it could.....)

The phrase "summer time" is synonymous with Daylight saving time.
The word "summertime" is synonymous with "summer".  Unfortunately,
"summertime" is definitely not "summer time".  One can hardly blame
someone whose native language is not English for failing to notice
this distinction.  Writing English is like walking across a minefield:
no problem if you know where all the traps are.  (Now as for the
hyphen in 'one-touch'.....)

					L. R. Custead
					Univ of Saskatchewan
					ihnp4!sask!custead

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