Re: Esperantist lies (Re: Learning a language)

From: Jim Heckman (wnzrfeurpxzna_at_lnubb.pbz.invalid)
Date: 07/03/04 

Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 00:44:46 GMT

On 2-Jul-2004, Des Small <des.small@bristol.ac.uk>
wrote in message <yyrjr7rubok1.fsf@pc156.maths.bris.ac.uk>:

> "Wiktor S." <wswiktor@poczta.fmv> writes:
>
> > > FSVO "recognizable". Just a few days ago, I had the unhappy
> > > occasion to be in a hospital emergency room (it turned out I had
> > > an excruciatingly painful but thankfully non-life-threatening
> > > kidney stone), where I passed the minutes that seemed like
> > > lifetimes -- while they decided whether they could give me any
> > > painkillers before they figured out what the problem was --
> > > reading the multilingual labeling on various medical supplies
> > > and apparatuses. One that would have completely stumped me if I
> > > hadn't had other versions available was an English loan'phrase'
> > > in katakana: <kasutamurengususupurinto>, written as a single
> > > word.
> >
> > "custom lengths print" I guess, but... what is it?
>
> I had "cast-armourings, splints", but I second the plea for
> enlightenment.

Good guesses, both, and combining them gets it on the nose. It
was actually "Custom Length Splint". 

-- 
Jim Heckman