Re: Housing Search in Japan
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 15:31:52 GMT, Kevin Wayne Williams
<nihongo@paxonet.kom> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>Curt Fischer wrote:
>
>>
>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>> Louise Bremner wrote:
>>>>Larry Fitzsimmons <larry_fitzsimmons@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>I am looking for a small efficiency....
>>>>I suppose that if I don't understand the usage of "efficiency" here, I
>>>>shouldn't even think of answering. I didn't even know that
>>>>efficiencies are countable....
>>>Maybe this is Amerika-go. It's a small, usually furnished, apartment.
>> I usually think of an efficiency as the same as a studio apartment.
>> It's like a 1DK where the 1, the D, and the K are all combined.
>
>Well, that was helpful. 1DK= 1 bedroom, dining room, kitchen? Where is
>that a normal expression?
Uhhh.....Japan?
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