"Do you want a street devil and a house angel, or vice versa?" meaning, "Is he nice to you in front of others but belittle you when you're alone, or does he rag on you in front of others but treat you well when it's just you and him?" regarding husbands ( Read more... )

"Does the sandwich come with?" [overheard at deli, asking does a reuben include sides of pickles or kraut, something of that nature without following 'with' by 'it/them'.I've noticed within the past three years a language change and perhaps others here have, too. Most often, it's noticeable about food as in the above example. A person keeps ( Read more... )

I was thinking today that I need to get some thermostatic radiator valves for the radiators, its getting near winter and its cold. I checked online for instructions on how to fit these and my eyes glazed over when it started talking about draining the central heating system and using X widget and Y screwdriver to do Z and W ( Read more... )

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Hi, I have a couple of French questions. I thought it best to post both them in one entry although the second is unrelated, rather than cluttering up people's friends pages.

How would you translate jouer les midinettes? ("jamais elle n'a toléré jouer les midinettes, les fleurs bleues ( Read more... )

I'm not quite sure how to phrase this, but I'm having a character flunk/fail Year 10. I don't know if that's possible, but this is for a story set in the future by several hundred years, so I figure it'll be okay.

If he's explaining to someone what happened, would he say, "I've failed Year 10," or "I've flunked out of Year 10"?

In the letter from the ( Read more... )

What are the stock phrases children use in games of "Hide-and-Seek" in German speaking countries? Like the equivalents of "ready or not, here I come" and whatever you say when its time to come out at the end.

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I'm working on something and i'd like to find how to say i love you in as many languages as possible. It is directed at a woman(if gender comes into play for the noun).
I know i could look it up on google translate or something, but i'd like to find out from either native speakers or those fluent, so i know it's correct.

Despite meaning to learn Welsh for years, I can't form a complete Welsh phrase, let alone sentence. I believe that the word for November is Tachwedd and the word for darkness is tywyllwch, but if I wanted to say "November darkness," what would be the correct word order, and are any declensions or mutations required? Diolch!