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The lobster was sliced into disks. Hence Tiles, I guess.
I try to get a menu and take a picture.
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Thats good Luke...cause I think you are not believed here  Funny how you can have Lobster Tiles on an Aussie menu over in the States and we have never heard of it back home! But then I don't eat out much.
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The lobster was sliced into disks. Hence Tiles, I guess.
I try to get a menu and take a picture. oh, I can believe someone would do that, but I think they were either confused (I'm being generous here), or thinking that they were making a clever word joke. which I suppose, it could be.
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It confused me too, and the reason I remember it, is that I
asked what they were, lobster tiles. And they told me
sliced lobster tail.
I will do what I can to get a menu, it's been a few months now
and may be difficult. But as for being believed, ask me if
I care. Discussion comes from across the globe on this site,
and many a discussion takes a grain of salt to be believed.
Perhaps eating roadkill turtle?????? For me disease would be
the first thing I'd be worried about.
And lots of people are very knowledgeable when it comes to
linguistics, which, of course is the purpose of the site,
but not everything fits into a liguistic discussion.
I think perhaps Buff has it closest: someone either did not
understand an Aussie, or was playing a joke on the accent
"tile" for "tail".
And to quote from Anu today:
Why verb a noun when a perfectly serviceable verb 'to befriend' is already a part of the language? But language grows with need, and 'to friend' someone online is not necessarily the same as 'to befriend'. Each new verb or noun adds a new shade to the mosaic of the language.
Last edited by LukeJavan8; 06/13/11 04:00 PM.
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Why verb a noun when a perfectly serviceable verb 'to befriend' is already a part of the language? But language grows with need, and 'to friend' someone online is not necessarily the same as 'to befriend'. Each new verb or noun adds a new shade to the mosaic of the language.
I believe you on your word Luke but:
Why slice up a perfectly serviceable lobster tail when we have knives and forks? I fear this is how they come, in ready-to-go deep frozen packages.
I expect Lewis Caroll to come back and tell the Tale of the Lobster Tile. :-)
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Why verb a noun when a perfectly serviceable verb 'to befriend' is already a part of the language?
Well, the noun friend was verb early in the 15th century. If one looks at the citations for befriend, one discovers it was first used more than one hundred years later. (All citations from the OED online.) This is so funny. Almost as funny as folks who get all wiggy about using till instead of until. The former also is older than the latter.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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