On Jun 4, 2004, at 8:47, Margery Allcock wrote:
Tamara wrote:
You kept a "packa" (mmm... the dictionary translation is wrong; but it's one of those flexible squares on a stick?) handy
A flyswat? That's what we call ours.
They're called flyswatters here; thanks Pam! And thanks Margery; if Pam hadn't written with the term I know, I'd have been able to reconstruct it from the "flyswat"...
Out of curiosity... When I see a fly or a bee/wasp/yellow jacket/hornet in the house, I reach for the fly swatter. When I see a mosquito, I wait for it to "come into my parlour" (ie alight somewhere on me) and then slap it flat. When I see a "flour moth", I chase all over the kitchen after it, trying to smash it between my clapping hands. Most unsatisfactory method, but one which seems instinctive... Do other people do it the same way?
--- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush.
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