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Itasan
Joined: 05 Nov 2003
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Location: Yokohama, Japan
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 Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:57 am Post subject: endless coffee |
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"He promised us endless coffee on demand."
Does this mean:
"He promised that we could drink as many cups of coffee
as we wanted as long as we requested for them."
At a coffee shop?
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eslweb
Joined: 31 May 2006
Posts: 208
Location: United Kingdom
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:43 am Post subject: Endless coffee... |
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Itasan,
It could mean a couple of things: "He promised us endless coffee on demand."
1. If you were arranging a conference, it could mean you pay extra to have as many coffee refills as you like.
2. It could be what you said.
Lexically it's more common to use:
* Free refills
* Bottomless coffee
Interestingly, this is much more common in the US and strangely you could buy drinks with free-refills in small, medium and large. We just couldn't figure out why people would still buy large drinks... When you can refill them anyway!
James
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/ |
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