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Americans - Pains in the Neck
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28/09/2005 12:18:29
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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Politics
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01052007
Message ID:
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>>>>> US: ATM
>>>>
>>>>Bank machine
>>>
>>>In UK only bank staff would call it ATM - Cashpoint, Cash machine, hole in the wall
>>
>>Visiting home I was surprised that these things are finally taking root there. And they have a new word for it: bankomat.
>
>What an ugly, dated word, like laundromat, or those old self-serve cafes from the 60s, where everything was behind a perspex lift-up door, you know, I can't remember now - servomat or someat like it.

It's still better than any TLA. It will stick.

While we're at the ATM subject - why are these guys called "tellers"? Aren't they supposed to specifically not tell anyone what business you had with them?

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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