I read. I even read American stuff sometimes. In the last week I've read all or some of 5 books about architecture & housing. Two of them were American. But, not being American I still have no real idea what the expected answer to
furnace:basement::stove:______
is. I *guess* "kitchen" because in the UK "stove" is an old-fashioned name for a cooking device, stuff we used before the invention of gas and electric cookers (in fact, before the invention of the cast-iron range). But for us a "furnace" is an extremely large thing that you get steel out of... not something anyone would find in a basement. Over here you put teenagers or washing machines or junk in your basement, not furnaces. Actually, in London, they are almost always converted into flats & rented out. Anyway, surely basements are urban vs. rural? A way of getting more room in a restricted space. Do people build them out in the country? Ken the Ethnocentric. dmolnar wrote:
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, David Honig wrote:
but soon realized it was likely. Tens of millions of Californians have *no idea* of the many-armed oil-fed beast that lives in basements..
They've never read a story which mentions such a thing?
-David
"Read" ???
Oh, right. Maybe the SAT is biased towards people who read. Since I read, that doesn't seem so bad to me.
-David (exulting in the logic of ... oh, wait)