Originally posted by NotAllThere
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostOnce you get used to speaking to foreigners, you make allowances for strange idioms, and different English usage. vetran's example was just sillyness on his part, combined with an apparent (and obviously massively misplaced) sense of superiority.
I was once asked how the snow had been for my ski holiday. I replied it was a bit mushy - when my (German) boss didn't understand, I looked up the word for "mushy" in German, and tried that. She went quite pink and started laughing. She wouldn't tell me what I'd said that was so funny.
Turned out it is a slang word that means the same as when a woman might be described as "wet".
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostOnce you get used to speaking to foreigners, you make allowances for strange idioms, and different English usage. vetran's example was just sillyness on his part, combined with an apparent (and obviously massively misplaced) sense of superiority.
I was once asked how the snow had been for my ski holiday. I replied it was a bit mushy - when my (German) boss didn't understand, I looked up the word for "mushy" in German, and tried that. She went quite pink and started laughing. She wouldn't tell me what I'd said that was so funny.
Turned out it is a slang word that means the same as when a woman might be described as "wet".“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostIt does mean exactly that (if we're still talking about the verb "intimate").
"I thought the verb meant to hint or say subtly. I'm surprised (and a bit disappointed) to find it means that AND it means to state. "Comment
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Surely it's this one for offshoreism of the day?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...cano-sets.html
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