Re: [tlug] Is a power supplier under warranty?

["Stephen A. Carter" <scarter@example.com>]

On 13/04/08 09:56, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Raymond Wan writes:
>
>  > Thank you both for looking it up!  Funny that Japanese lists them both
>  > as synonyms.
>
> The Japanese language doesn't make the distinction, which goes both
> ways.  You've heard of the famous Inuit languages with scores of words
> for "snow", I suppose?  English doesn't have that many. :-)  I'm sure
> there are plenty of examples in Japanese, too, but I can't think of
> any striking ones off-hand.

Kome, yone, ine, meshi, gohan, ii, uruchi, urishine, raisu...

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