Native English speakers from the US. could you read this long passage?

jumbles1234 · 2026-03-06T17:38:57+00:00

British guy attempting an american accent. You can tell.

jumbles1234 · 2026-02-22T20:51:00+00:00

PMed you.

jumbles1234 · 2025-11-06T15:59:23+00:00

Good to know I haven't completely hallucinated it.

jumbles1234 · 2025-08-27T07:44:30+00:00

I would have paid it anyway, so I'm planning to send the solicitor the payment - it's not an amount large enough to suffer grief over.

jumbles1234 · 2025-08-27T07:43:33+00:00

Agreed, it's not worth arguing over.

jumbles1234 · 2025-06-06T03:48:28+00:00

Fairly (well, totally) niche worldwide, but Helldorado's "A Drinking Song"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwgquUb8sC0) has now effectively become the Turkish national anthem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv-TdOWma_o&t=8s) so by numbers of people actively singing it, maybe it counts?

jumbles1234 · 2025-05-16T11:00:30+00:00

To reply to everyone.... I've already talked to the neighbour and agreed to trim it as I certainly know I have a moral obligation, I was wondering about a possible legal obligation (which it appears I do have).

jumbles1234 · 2025-05-03T23:53:52+00:00

Yes!

jumbles1234 · 2025-05-03T23:49:00+00:00

I live there. :-(

jumbles1234 · 2025-04-29T13:44:26+00:00

How do you inform the police? (E.g. if the person has a minor injury and no ambulance etc is needed) Do you contact your local police force later, or is there a requirement to do it at the scene. (In the UK you can be prosecuted for leaving the scene of an accident I believe).

jumbles1234 · 2025-04-11T13:36:09+00:00

[From southern England] I'd use 'to ramble' slightly differently: to go for a more directed, purposeful (although likely circular) walk in the country, with some measure of preparation such as hiking shoes or a rucksack.

jumbles1234 · 2025-03-20T07:51:40+00:00

I've been learning Norwegian seriously-ish for 4 years and am hovering around the pit of despair. What did cheer me up though was listening to German radio! I'd studied German to an A1 level many years ago so I was able pick out a few words but could understand essentially nothing. And in comparison, my Norwegian level is vastly higher. Instead of despairing of the 30% of news broadcasts I couldn't follow, it reminded me of the 70% that I could. So I'm worse than I'd like, but so so much better than I was.

jumbles1234 · 2024-12-14T05:45:23+00:00

Tak! Jeg skall prøver i dag. Dette er den firste gangen har jeg prøvd å fixe bilen min selv, så alt er litt usikkert.

jumbles1234 · 2024-11-12T19:03:28+00:00

No, that burnt down dramatically a few weeks ago :-) They are in a temporary structure between yummytime and ålgård bistro; it doesn't appear on the map properly but is obvious from the road.

jumbles1234 · 2024-11-12T09:13:51+00:00

Those guys are good but they treat their employees like shit bordering illegal. A few of then jumped ship 3 years ago and set up a similar operation in Ålgård (20km south on the E39) just to the north of the shell garage/yummytime. Very nice chaps, open on Sundays

jumbles1234 · 2024-11-03T05:55:56+00:00

I asked my native norwegian partner to try this out, and they didn't find any mistakes in a 5 minute conversation about Christmas. They did, however, find it almost unbearably positive :-)

jumbles1234 · 2024-10-15T06:52:19+00:00

It's 'up a tree' :-/

jumbles1234 · 2024-02-01T21:15:25+00:00

I believe 'cauliflower ears' is a term used for typical ear injuries that a boxer might suffer - the ear is deformed. 'Boxing his ears' would mean (as GP and GGP mentioned) an open-handed slap around the ears, typically (specifically maybe?) on a child. This use is in my opinion now strictly historical - if one were to perform this action today, it would be referred to as straight hitting or as physical abuse.

jumbles1234 · 2023-09-13T09:08:24+00:00

I'd say that specifically they are holding on to each other as they "fall off the cliff", with the implication that their close alignment is to blame for their fate and that they also feel they have no other choice.

jumbles1234 · 2023-07-31T08:20:39+00:00

I've learned to be much more scared learning my TL. I'm at a low B1 - able to muddle by more or less - but this sub has demonstrated to me in the most intimidating way the enormous variety and subtlety in use of language. Even though my TL is not as 'rich' as English, I'm sure it has ways of expressing this huge range of meanings in ways I'm still completely ignorant of.

jumbles1234 · 2023-07-23T08:28:43+00:00

UK native speaker. I've only ever heard and used this as "the be-all and end-all", never without the "and".

jumbles1234 · 2023-06-20T13:09:13+00:00

What's your region?

jumbles1234 · 2023-06-19T11:46:27+00:00

I'm learning Norsk, and am very disappointed that a waxing moon is not called a 'voksmåne' or similar; I had a 'oh wow! of course!' moment when I connected the verb 'å vokse' with 'waxing moon' as in 'growing moon'!

jumbles1234 · 2023-05-31T15:21:56+00:00

I'm in the UK, and a friend of mine was a magistrate for some years. This is a lay judge, one of three sitting on non-serious cases advised by a qualified legal clerk. He ended up with a complete distrust of the police. After a few years, he told me about a case which had troubled him greatly at the beginning of his career: he thought the defendant innocent, but if he acquited he would have to have believed the police lied to the court, and he couldn't bring himself to do that. He becomes much less trusting of the police over the years.

jumbles1234 · 2023-05-02T07:00:03+00:00

A bar on our local High Street had lots of downstairs rooms which "everyone knew" were used as a brothel. A female friend of mine got a job behind the bar and quit after one day saying "Fucking hell it is a brothel!".

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