Originally posted by amateur51
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Oh I know a little German too - what's yours called?
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What's not to like?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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It's to die for"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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If it's to die for what's not to like?Comment
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Italians say things are da morire all the time. Is that where it comes from?Comment
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Or did they get it from 'us' (whoever that is).Originally posted by jean View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Perhaps if we all responded with"be my guest" it might bring perpetrators up short?Originally posted by Caliban View Post
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Mumbled grumpily under the breath, I think, amsy? Looking up 'definitions' seems to point to an Americanism. An unnecessary gloss?Originally posted by amateur51 View PostPerhaps if we all responded with"be my guest" it might bring perpetrators up short?
Thought before posting: OED
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to die for : (as if) worth dying for; superlatively good or highly desirable; extraordinary. Also to die, fabulous, astonishing. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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As is 'What's not to like?' The reason I really hate it is that it's usually describing something I absolutely loathe. And then they say 'what's not to like'? Just about everything!
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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"It'll be a learning curve", or similar.
For some reason, these people think that they are curving, when in fact they are learning and their progress can be plotted on a graph
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Let's let your people meet my people and see where we go!Originally posted by amateur51 View PostPerhaps if we all responded with"be my guest" it might bring perpetrators up short?
Incidentally I love the Alan Alda line in one of the Woody Allen films --"He's good, he gives great meeting ! "Comment
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The young reporter on The Andrew Marr this morning spoke of "a cue", or maybe "a queue", reminding me of the new posh way of pronouncing food as "feud". I dunno about anybody else - no one else has remarked on this - but I was elocuted to say "food", as in "boo", which as a Londoner I said anyway; hence "coo day tar", not "queue day tar" for what might be said not to be going on in Ukraine right now.
I often wonder, did this noo way of pronounciation slip in unobserved when better orf parents started taking their kinds out of state education?Comment
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Originally posted by jean View Post
Given that avery small minority of all US immigrants hail from Italy I'm not quite sure where your certainty comes from!Comment
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