On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:10 AM, John Prentice <[email protected]
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> > * Is this just an American colloquialism? I suppose in other parts of
> > the English-speaking world one would say "dustbin diving"?
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> Skip diving is the usual terminology in UK as a dustbin is more like a
> trash
> can rather than a dumpster.
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> John Prentice
>
Hi John;
I am curious about the proper translation for "dumpster diving".
Prior to the 1950s the English seemed annoyed with the Americans ability
to turn nouns to verbs and verbs to nouns. For example, we go "shopping"
instead of "going to the shop". That said, the only translation that comes
to
my mind is dumpstering, which I am doubting.
Thanks in advance
Don
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