To give Mike a little room for his statement, I had no way of knowing that, given the number of languages in the world. In this case, I have no way of knowing it's meaning in the example shown. Is this an indoor swimming pool? Rarely called a basin in this part of the world, but a pool.
In my life, I have seen open outdoors areas like the ones originally shown in the photo referred to as basins. Even a boat docking area on San Francisco Bay. And the bowls formed by the area between mountains. #3 definition in the dictionary is "a natural depression in the earths surface, typically filled with water" #1 is for washing your hands and face attached to the wall. #2 is a wide open round container, usually holding liquid. But to quote some actor playing a dad on TV just now, "Words mean different things to different people" Ha! :-) On Nov 30, 2011, at 07:47 , Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > Well, I studied Russian and picked up a little Slovak and Rusyn at > home, but "Swimming" doesn't look Slavic to me. <G> > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:19 AM, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> Basen is the spelling in quite a few of the Slavic languages. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com http://gallery.me.com/jomac -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
