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01-13-2010, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by chryuop View Post
When you work overnight all your times are changed. So yes, if you talk to overnight workers we say lunch for our lunch at night. We say goodnight when we go home in the morning and good morning when we go to work at night. And it is not only me who I am not native English speaker, other 50ish co-workers do the same (I learnt from them actually).
That's actually my point. Natives know "lunch" is wrong, but they call it that anyway. I don't have any experience with midnight crews in Japan, but I would default to using vocabulary as if we were a daytime crew just like I do with English.

Does your native language not do this? ...was it Italian? I forgot. :/
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