Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jayanan, poli and dosa sound tasty... cheers, Frank ----- Original Message ---- From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, 23 September, 2010 14:39:30 Subject: Re: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... Not! Frank, Momentarily confused me no end when I first heard it, having been brought up to believe it meant "for a moment" and not "in a moment". We (Neela & I) actually still laugh out loud when we hear the US usage, it sounds so strange to our ears! We call the sweet pancake/crepe "poli" and the savory ones "dosa" or "dosai". Poli is made out of refined flour and usually stuffed with either a mixture of coconut and jaggery, or with a sweet concoction made from chickpea flour. Dosai is made crisp with a fermented batter of rice and lentils and are usually eaten plain or stuffed with a mild potato curry. Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > Much more complicated than that! > Here in England "pancakes" are thin, usually served flat sprinkled with > lemon >and sugar. Crepes are the similar but thinner French version. In France >there >are lots of Creperies and they are served in a multitude of ways, with both >savoury and sweet fillings, pretty well always folded over so the filling >is >"internal". Nobody in England would call a pancake a crepe unless they were >being pretentious. > There is no real equivalent in England of what Americans call pancakes, > though >those who will have travelled to the USA may well have tried and enjoyed >them, >as I have, hence know what an American is talking about if he says >"pancake". > The nearest equivalent to American-style pancakes in the UK would be > Scotch >pancakes, or drop scones. Being married to a Scot I am -very- familiar with >them, and make them myself! They are much smaller than the American-style >pancakes I have come across, 3" to 4" diameter, but similar in thickness >and >texture to their american cousin. Scotch pancakes are normally served >buttered >with Golden Syrup or jam. > Few, if any, people in England would refer to Scotch pancakes as simply >pancakes, since in England a pancake is much larger in diameter and much >thinner. > > > Another confusing difference between English and American! > > FD > > PS my favourite difference in English and American meaning is in the word >momentarily, plenty of potential for amusing confusion! > > > On 23 Sep, 2010, at 10:42, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> There are pancakes and there are thin pancakes. >> The thin pancakes are crapes and the list mentioned. >> >> A typical photo lens called a pancake is about 3/4's of an inch thick. >> http://www.jessops.com/ce-images/PRODUCT/PRODUCT_ENLARGED/ASAMSLE205155090.j >> pg >> Or >> http://tinyurl.com/2b65he7 >> >> This pancake we just saw seemed to thin to even grab. 1/4 inch. Must have >> used more eggs and milk and less flour. >> hence me calling them cr?pes. Or those other things. Which comes from a >> list >> of synonyms for crepes. Which are thin pancakes. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr?pe >> " A cr?pe (English pronunciation: /?kre?p/, French: [k??p]; Breton: >> krampouezhenn) is a type of very thin pancake, usually made from wheat >> flour." >> >> >> " An early example is the (Zeiss) Tessar of 1902. The design has seen a >> resurgence due to the growth of the mirrorless interchangeable lens >> digital >> camera (so-called EVIL camera) market, notably the Micro Four Thirds >> system. >> >> In the 1960s and 1970s the Nikon GN (Guide number) lens was a notable >> example, while in the 1970s and 1980s pancake lenses were used in compact >> single lens reflex (SLR) cameras.[1]" >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_lens >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> >> >>> From: Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:24 +0900 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... Not! >>> >>> Mark, >>> >>> In English English, we call those thin fried cakes made from batter >>> 'pancakes' . You can have fun trying to flip them in one swift flick >>> of the wrist. In Japanese English they call the thicker, perhaps US, >>> variety 'hot-cakes'. >>> >>> Maybe these tiny thin pancake lenses should be selling like 'hot cakes'. >>> >>> All the best, >>> >>> Peter Cheyne >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information