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echo: coffee_klatsch
to: George Pope
from: Bjrn Forsstrm
date: 2006-05-24 07:44:34
subject: Tattoo

BF>> Ok, but for us bite is bite and drill is drill and that's two compleatly
 BF>> different
 BF>> things so a mosquito that drills can never bite and we can never connect
 BF>> those words.

 GP> Colloquially speaking, in English, we often call it a mosquito bite. (or a
 GP> sting, but more usually a bite)

 GP> What would you call it?  "a mosquito drill"?

:-)
No, we actually say mosquito bite but it's changing to sting now that we know
they don't bite.

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