In a message dated 10/5/2005 7:46:27 PM Mountain Daylight Time, gbuchana@rogers.com writes: I hope I need not remind you that it *is* the holy month of Ramadan, and therefore fasting is expected. A devout Muslim might well be offended by your tacit encouragement to break the fast by eating a free lunch! Good grief. Leave it alone. I don't drink beer, but the phrase is idiomatic and therefore should be accepted as an idiom. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!
Good grief.
Leave it alone. I don't drink beer, but the phrase is idiomatic and therefore should be accepted as an idiom.
Anne
That's exactely the problem I have with it. It is probably perfectely understandable for native English speakers. Non noative speakers with a high level probably don't have a problem with it either. That leaves probably 95% of the world population in question about it. Why not make it a clear statement ? Frank
Frank van Drogen wrote:
Good grief.
Leave it alone. I don't drink beer, but the phrase is idiomatic and therefore should be accepted as an idiom.
Anne
That's exactely the problem I have with it. It is probably perfectely understandable for native English speakers. Non noative speakers with a high level probably don't have a problem with it either. That leaves probably 95% of the world population in question about it. Why not make it a clear statement ?
Frank
Add footnotes to the page (ala Pratchett)?
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