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5330.       thehandsom
7403 posts
 27 Aug 2009 Thu 12:18 pm

 

Quoting lady in red

 

 

´Have you money?´ sounds completely weird to me!  - You could say ´Do you have money?´ or as you said ´Have you got money?´ both - to me - would translate as ´are you wealthy?´ rather than ´have you any cash on you?´

 

´Got´ is a strange word (and I´m sure some Turks are sniggering now!) and I have no idea how it ´got´ into the English vocabulary.  Why do we say ´I´ve got to go now´ meaning ´I must go now´?  (another strange thing we tend to say is ´I´m going to go now´ - what´s wrong with ´I´m going now´? - why stick the infinitive in there?)  

 

I think we use ´get/got´ so much because it´s a lazy way of avoioding longer words  

 

Check your grammer book, hopefully you will understand. lol lol 

5331.       lady in red
6947 posts
 27 Aug 2009 Thu 12:29 pm

 

Quoting thehandsom

 

 

Check your grammer book, hopefully you will understand. lol lol 

 

I´ll do that  - I really would like to learn how to speak English correctly! 

5332.       vineyards
1954 posts
 27 Aug 2009 Thu 12:53 pm

 

Quoting thehandsom

 

 

Check your grammer book, hopefully you will understand. lol lol 

 

and the spelling book too <img src='/static/images/smileys//lol.gif' alt='lol'> (fast)

5333.       thehandsom
7403 posts
 27 Aug 2009 Thu 01:10 pm

 

Quoting vineyards

 

 

and the spelling book too <img src='/static/images/smileys//lol.gif' alt='lol'> (fast)

 

Have you a good spelling book to recommend? <img src='/static/images/smileys//lol.gif' alt='lol'> (fast)

 

 

5334.       lady in red
6947 posts
 27 Aug 2009 Thu 01:43 pm

Quoting thehandsom

 

 

Check your grammer book, hopefully you will understand. lol lol 

 

 

 

 

 

Quoting vineyards

 

 

and the spelling book too <img src='/static/images/smileys//lol.gif' alt='lol'> (fast)

 

I did notice his spelling mistake but Sonunda is on Spelling Police Duty today not me!  lol

5335.       _AE_
677 posts
 27 Aug 2009 Thu 04:04 pm

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

 

(Let that be a warning to all you girls out there.....)

 

lollollol

5336.       thehandsom
7403 posts
 27 Aug 2009 Thu 04:10 pm

I  was just planning to offer my peace pipe to a certain individual here..

But I changed my mind after reading the posts in this thread:

http://www.turkishclass.com/turkish/forum/forumTitle_41458

Ninja


5337.       _AE_
677 posts
 27 Aug 2009 Thu 04:11 pm

 

Quoting thehandsom

I  was just planning to offer my peace pipe to a certain individual here..

But I changed my mind after reading the posts in this thread:

http://www.turkishclass.com/turkish/forum/forumTitle_41458

Ninja


 

 Phew!  Destiny dealt me a good hand for once

I gave up smoking a while ago darling ... put your pipe where it will do the most good! lollollol

5338.       Melek1974
154 posts
 27 Aug 2009 Thu 04:13 pm

 

Quoting vineyards

God must have created British English to be spoken by a woman. What they call as The Standard English is a language so eloquent and so nice to hear, well, as long as it is spoken by a lady.

 

Interesting. I always thought it to sound better when spoken by a male .. especially by the likes of Jeremy Irons or Alan Rickman or any reincarnation of the James Bond fellow really. Maybe it´s just a sexy accent regardless.

 

Although the older I get, the more it sounds to me like somebody speaking with a mouthful of mashed potatoes.

5339.       Elisabeth
5732 posts
 27 Aug 2009 Thu 04:39 pm

 

Quoting Melek1974

 

 

Interesting. I always thought it to sound better when spoken by a male .. especially by the likes of Jeremy Irons or Alan Rickman or any reincarnation of the James Bond fellow really. Maybe it´s just a sexy accent regardless.

 

 

 

 I have to agree with you Melek....I love talking to my evil British friends.  I always marvel at the fact that no matter how angry they get, they always manage to sound so polite.  I took a British friend to get her drivers license here in the states.  They were so rude to her (it was actually quite embarrasing) and she just gave it right back to them in such a nice way that the morons didn´t even realize that they were being insulted!  She promised to teach me this technique and to also detect when I was being insulted by another evil Brit...hehehe.  <img src='/static/images/smileys//lol.gif' alt='lol'> (fast)

5340.       Melek1974
154 posts
 27 Aug 2009 Thu 04:52 pm

 

Quoting Elisabeth

 

 She promised to teach me this technique and to also detect when I was being insulted by another evil Brit...hehehe.  <img src='/static/images/smileys//lol.gif' alt='lol'> (fast)

 

I hope you do not neglect to share this precious knowledge with the rest of us who might ever be risk of being insulted by evil Brits! Big smile

 

What I absoltely LOVE about the British way of communicating is the humor of understatement. I recall a story I heard from my former bf, who happened to be British, who totalled his father´s car at age 16 and when he came home announced it to his parents as "There seems to be A BIT OF a problem with the car." <img src='/static/images/smileys//lol.gif' alt='lol'> Coupled with his accent, that is just something that makes me laugh every time I think about it.

 

My favorite book EVER is full of such wonderful British humor (I´m referring to "Three Men in a Boat" of course).



Edited (8/27/2009) by Melek1974
Edited (8/27/2009) by Melek1974

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