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Joe

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Dear Teachers, please help me sort these out.

1) A place in a company or a university where employees or students go to for meals. I can only come up with "dinning room". Is it OK? Are there any other words for it?

2) As a student, you deliberately absent yourself from a class in the morning, can I call this "class-cutting"? Can I say "I cut class in the morning"?

3) You take a picture of someone, like on the street, without their permission(they even don't know about it) by using a cell phone camera. Can I say "I snapped a picture of a pretty girl I saw on the street this morning"? :oops:

4) Townsman. If I am in another city, not in my home town, can I call the people from the same city as me "townsman"? i.e. can I say, "This is my townsman, John; I usually hang out with my townsmen".

Thank you very much! :)
 

Francois

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1) canteen
2) fine
3) I think it's ok
4) I didn't know this word, but your sentences seem ok.

FRC
 

bmo

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Joe said:
1) A place in a company or a university where employees or students go to for meals. I can only come up with "dinning room". Is it OK? Are there any other words for it?

4) Townsman. If I am in another city, not in my home town, can I call the people from the same city as me "townsman"? i.e. can I say, "This is my townsman, John; I usually hang out with my townsmen".

Thank you very much! :)

1. Cafeteria
4. People from my hometown. Townspeople and townsfolk are people of a town (not country folks).
 

bmo

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Townsman is correct, I just checked. It is a fellow citizen of a town.
 

Joe

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bmo said:
Townsman is correct, I just checked. It is a fellow citizen of a town.

Where did you check it, bmo? Collins COBUILD does not have such a item. I suspect "townsman" is not part of English standard vocabulary.
 

bmo

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Joe said:
bmo said:
Townsman is correct, I just checked. It is a fellow citizen of a town.

Where did you check it, bmo? Collins COBUILD does not have such a item. I suspect "townsman" is not part of English standard vocabulary.

Go to www.onelook.com. It lists 14 dictionaries having this word.
 
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