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* "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Stefan Ram
+* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"CDB
|`- Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Peter Moylan
+* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Hibou
|+* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Stefan Ram
||`- Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Hibou
|+- Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Peter Moylan
|`* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"bruce bowser
| +* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Stefan Ram
| |`* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Snidely
| | +- Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"musika
| | +* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Hibou
| | |`* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Hibou
| | | `* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Bertel Lund Hansen
| | |  `* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Hibou
| | |   `* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Peter Moylan
| | |    `* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Peter T. Daniels
| | |     `* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Hibou
| | |      `- Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Peter T. Daniels
| | `- Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"bruce bowser
| `* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Peter Moylan
|  `* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"lar3ryca
|   `* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Snidely
|    `* Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Bertel Lund Hansen
|     `- Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"Ken Blake
`- Re: "you" - "vous" - "Sie"J. J. Lodder

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 by: Peter T. Daniels - Mon, 3 Oct 2022 14:46 UTC

On Monday, October 3, 2022 at 4:25:38 AM UTC-4, Hibou wrote:
> Le 02/10/2022 à 16:58, Peter T. Daniels a écrit :
> >>>> Den 02.10.2022 kl. 09.09 skrev Hibou:
> >>>>> "'Magnus isn't the type to hang about in pubs'" - du Maurier, 'The
> >>>>> House on the Strand', 1969. [...]
> > "Hang about" still doesn't feel idiomatic. [...]

An unfortunate deletion.

> Perhaps not - but as a Briton I take it ill to be criticised for using
> an expression because it is little known in AmE.

I did not criticize you. Complain at the bowser, not that it will do
you any good.

> I hope what I can hear now is the sound of necks being wound in.

It's astonishing how often Brits think that pointing out a difference
between BrE and AmE is somehow a criticism of BrE.


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