tea cup, teacup, tea-cup

kirabell · 01-16-2007, 06:38 PM

Hello everyone

I'm workinf on a translation and I'm not sure I understand fully the meaning of the following.

In the storory I'm working on, a visitors come to the house of a buddy who is a bit of a philosopher and asks him:

"So, tell me, man, if a tea cup is only a tea-cup because we say it's a tea-cup, what is a teacup?"

I have a good idea of what this is supposed to be, but just to make sure: is there really a difference between tea cup, teacup and tea-cup?

Thank you

Jessierugg · 01-20-2007, 03:19 PM

No, they are all the same thing.

01-16-2007, 06:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
kirabell Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2 kirabell is an unknown character at this point	tea cup, teacup, tea-cup Hello everyone I'm workinf on a translation and I'm not sure I understand fully the meaning of the following. In the storory I'm working on, a visitors come to the house of a buddy who is a bit of a philosopher and asks him: "So, tell me, man, if a tea cup is only a tea-cup because we say it's a tea-cup, what is a teacup?" I have a good idea of what this is supposed to be, but just to make sure: is there really a difference between tea cup, teacup and tea-cup? Thank you
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01-20-2007, 03:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
Jessierugg Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Massachusetts, usa Posts: 131 Jessierugg is an unknown character at this point	No, they are all the same thing.
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