Categories: friends, translation
Date: 12 August 2007 11:31:58
Question posed by my German lodger, who speaks excellent English, yesterday:
Lödgerin: (Reading newspaper article) What is a small gas board?
Me: (Flicking through recipe books) Err, well, I suppose it must be some sort of gas board which is not big.
Lödgerin: No, not a gas board.... A small gas board?
Me: (Utter bewilderment). Show me. (Looks at newspaper). Oh, it's a Swedish-style buffet*
*smörgåsbord