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Tag: signs

No Flytipping, and Other Communication Fails

Posted on May 29, 2018September 23, 2018 by Beverly Diehl

The problem wasn’t the vocabulary we knew we had to learn, like “loo” or “water closet” for bathroom/toilet. It was the words we didn’t know we had to learn.

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Posted in Language, Slice o' Life, TravelTagged English slang, linguistic differences, signs, vocabulary

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