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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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 Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:53 am Post subject: It isn't cricket! |
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| matttheboy wrote: |
"At the end of the day it's a game of two halves and the gaffer said that if the lads gave 110% and scored more goals than them we'd be able to pull it off. The other team must feel sick as a parrot."
Say it in a high squeaky voice and you've got david beckham. Mind you, footy players aren't the brightest bunch and asking them to string a sentence together without using cliches would be like getting blood from a stone. |
Does this have any connection with the fact that your current avatar depicts a highly rare event in sport, namely England cricketers being triumphant over a successfully taken wicket?
Well, if so, "it isn't cricket"! (Not for the Aussies, anyway!  )
Hope our lot can do much better in the Second Test match - or is that tempting fate?  |
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JonnytheMann
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| "It will all work out in the end." |
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merlin
Joined: 10 May 2004
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Location: Somewhere between Camelot and NeverNeverLand
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:26 am Post subject: |
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"I'm part Native American"  |
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JonnytheMann
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| merlin wrote: |
| "I'm part Native American" |
Hahahaha ... thank you for giving me the best laugh I've had all day! 
P.S. Be prepared to receive some wrath from the Cafe's "favorite" poster! |
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merlin
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But I'd hate to take you fishing. |
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Chasgul
Joined: 04 May 2005
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Location: BG
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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"What can you do?" (often said with a sigh)
Always gives me the urge to give them a few ideas.  |
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frigginhippie
Joined: 13 Mar 2004
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Location: over here
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:26 am Post subject: |
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by native speakers: "play it by ear"
by students: "what a pity!" or any other expression highly outdated but still taught by their local teachers |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:44 am Post subject: "Where you come from?" |
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"Where you come from?"
A typical Chinglish question asked of me by students when they are "shocked" (  ) to hear me not speak with an American accent, but they seem not to have either the willingness or the capacity even to guess where I might be from, since guessing takes up too much of their valuable time, which could otherwise be devoted to talking on their mobile phones (that's "cellphones" for our North American cousins). |
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SillySally
Joined: 26 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:29 am Post subject: y |
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| My English is so poor, how can I make it better? |
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BigMooseJohn
Joined: 27 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:33 am Post subject: Cliches |
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Hated
Do a quick and dirty.(my old accounting Boss)
Agree to disagree.(ditto)
Cool - in any form/expression.
Like..... - as in " I was like walking down the street....
What to say ?
How to do ?
Where to go ?
It is deeficult. |
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JonnytheMann
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:56 am Post subject: |
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| Some Americans say mobile phone. |
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merlin
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"North American Cousins" - So you're part Indian, too? Small world.
"Small World" ... ahem.
"Two countries divided by a common language" How many times do I have to hear this on a two-week trip to England?
"You don't sound/look/act American" Are we supposed to say "Thank you" to this one? How does one reply?
"Brave new world"
"Big brother" |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:49 am Post subject: Cousins and un-PC terms |
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| merlin wrote: |
| "North American Cousins" - So you're part Indian, too? |
"Don't be so presumptuous!" [You think "Indians" are the only people who live in North America?!]
"That's so un-PC!" [I thought "Indian" was an "un-PC" term for what Americans refer to as "Native Americans" and what Canadians refer to as "First Nations" people.] |
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slaqdog
Joined: 29 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:15 am Post subject: at the end of the day |
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Hate it to death==='at the end of the day' 
"that's the Gulf for you" Thanks china scribe this is said in a lotta different parts of the world-just change the location,
"I'm working on it" meaning 'Don't ask me again'
'Like it or lump it" Is lump code for another four letter word? Don't they know there is a further option?
'My favoutite teacher'-from students not s*x partners
'this hurts me more than it hurts you'
and my all time favourite----"competitive local salary"--Why am I in competition with the local garbage men? They earn WHAT? Give me a shovel!  |
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Henry_Cowell
Joined: 27 May 2005
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Location: Berkeley
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:09 am Post subject: |
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| JonnytheMann wrote: |
| Some Americans say mobile phone. |
So do almost all Brits. It ain't a 'cliche'. It's the name of the darn thing! |
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