Originally Posted by
Jenbel
Do you think I made it up just to post on a bulletin board?
No, I was saying that she could have probably figured it out if she had thought about it.
Originally Posted by
Jenbel
She wasn't American. She may not have been to the US in her life. She was HK Chinese. And she didn't understand what the verb 'post' meant.
The postal service in HK is called "Hongkong Post", and the term "post office" is also used in Hong Kong to refer to the building, just like in the US. While I falsely assumed she was American, it really makes no difference here because HK English is the same.