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PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS & CULTURE |
Autor: | Brian, Jeremy Eric |
E-mail: | não-disponível |
Data: | 05/NOV/2002 12:36 PM |
Assunto: | Re: Mall or shopping centre? |
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We are all native speakers of American English and to us a mall or a shopping mall is that big kind of indoor shopping area with a few major department stores (that you usually have to pass through to enter the heart of the mall) and a wide veriety of specialty shops, a food court, movie theaters and a huge parking lot surrounding the whole structure. This type of arrangement of shops is very popular nowadays - teenagers can often be found hanging out at the mall. A shopping center can be a mall but can also be one of those smaller outdoor collections of shops on the side of the road, often referred to as a "strip mall" as the shops are spread out in a strip - parallel to the road. Eric |