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Iamherebecause
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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| 'the UAE had the most money spent on shopping per capita in the world' |
The biggest festival here is the 'Shopping Festival'. Now, in my idiolect I don't reckon those words collocate. |
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eha
Joined: 26 May 2005
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Location: ME
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| They do in the global financial idiolect. By the way, I was quoting someone else, who seemed to think that this -- the fact that Dubai spends its time in the shopping mall-- is something to praise. |
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Harriet
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| EHA: I agree wholeheartedly. I don't know why anyone would praise the shopping mall culture or indeed the shopping malls here. They all carry exactly the same things, and much of it nasty and over priced. What I wouldn't give to have just one, good, US-type mall with, say, a Neiman-Marcus or a Marshall-Fields, some decent bookstores (at least they've finally opened an almost-Borders at MotE), boutiques with a variety of clothes in a variety of styles, sizes and price ranges.... ah. |
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Stephen Jones
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| They do in the global financial idiolect. |
If more than one person uses it it's a dialect, not an idiolect. |
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eha
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| Sorry, Stephen. Never claimed to be a linguistician! Happy New Year. |
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like2answer
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I must respond to Harriet when she states "I don't know why anyone would praise the shopping mall culture or indeed the shopping malls here."
One doesn't need to shop in a shopping mall. One can use it for other uses -
walking for exercise in A/C - if you think this isn't nice, go visit Fujairah. I have a friend there and if we want to walk outside during the non-winter months, there is no place to walk. We like to drive so we go to Abu Dhabi, RAK, and Dubai, and she visits me in Al Ain so my friend can visit a mall. We just walk and talk and aren't afraid of tripping over some concrete slab jutting out of the pavement or a piece of wire from a construction site that has found its way to be in our way so we can trip over it.
movies - in malls there are good cinemas. Once again, go to Fujairah and you can go to one of the three, sometimes two English films going on. They are 25 dirhams and are not even 1/2 as nice as cinemas in other Emirates.
Hey, before I go on (and I could for another hour or so), maybe I need to start another thread... but this could be the good points and bad points of Fujairah? Malls? There are good points and bad points of each. |
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caliph
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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Location: Iceland
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| From savagery to decadence in one generation. |
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