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   Hi Ardith,   
      
   28.11.2025 3:12:21, Ardith Hinton wrote:   
      
    AH>            Excuse me... but in linguistics it's important to use   
    AH> slash lines to indicate the pronunciation.  That's what I was    
    AH> trying to do here.  As usual, we borrowed the word from another    
    AH> language & pronounced it a bit differently.  :-)   
      
   Excuse my news reader, for it does see paired slashes and treats them   
   as "italics" marks, but when I do quote-reply, the message editor   
   slashes them slashes... :-) If that makes sense at all.   
      
    GH>> Which particular type have you imagined: passenger railroad   
    GH>> car, station wagon, hippie van, horse-drawn cart? :-)   
    AH>            Good question.  In those days the Volkswagen was a   
    AH> passenger car made in Germany & designed to be reasonably    
    AH> affordable to people on a limited budget. Later on I saw a whole    
    AH> streetful of them parked in UBC's University Village, but    
    AH> unfortunately we didn't have cell phones with cameras back then.   
      
   It was a mild attempt to make fun of the "brand name" ambiguity and how   
   it could be perceived across different languages. For example, in   
   American English, I believe "wagon" could also bring to one's mind an   
   image of the "wagon and horse" vehicle, while "folks" might as well   
   amplify the impression of "rurality". Meanwhile in Russia... "wagon"   
   conjures up a (passenger/freight) railroad car in the first place, but   
   isn't directly linked to wheeled vehicles in general; it could even   
   become a stationary shelter or trailer with its wheels off (e.g. a   
   small hut for construction workers). In a similar manner, a North   
   American "station wagon" in no way seems to decode into a Russian   
   "family car with an extra cargo volume", because "station" again would   
   involuntarily link it to the railways. So... :-)   
      
       
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