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Re: Smallwhite needs help with English expressions

Postby Adrianslont » Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:29 am

smallwhite wrote:
reineke wrote:I love all feathered animals.

I didn't understand this sentence above from this post. Is it about me? What does it mean and what is the animal? And how come reineke doesn't want me to understand it?

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I think the answer is to be found in your avatar.

Why didn’t he want to explain it to you I can only guess - he’s a bit of a tease?
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Re: Smallwhite needs help with English expressions

Postby smallwhite » Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:14 am

Adrianslont wrote:I think the answer is to be found in your avatar.

Why didn’t he want to explain it to you I can only guess - he’s a bit of a tease?

:P I think you're right! It never occured to me that the duck in the pic would represent me.

I felt reineke meant something like Jon saying "I just love cats grrr" after one of Garfield's mischieves, but the wording didn't quite fit. I also thought about the fox and the stork, and the analogy was right :P but when reineke wouldn't respond I felt it's probably something else.
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Re: Smallwhite needs help with English expressions

Postby reineke » Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:55 am

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Re: Smallwhite needs help with English expressions

Postby smallwhite » Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:06 am

reineke wrote:
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Pics you post are more comprehensible than posts you write.
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Re: Smallwhite needs help with English expressions

Postby reineke » Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:49 pm

smallwhite wrote:Reineke writes better analysis and advice.
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Re: Smallwhite needs help with English expressions

Postby smallwhite » Tue Feb 20, 2018 2:07 am

reineke wrote:
smallwhite wrote:Reineke writes better analysis and advice.

smallwhite wrote:But then I'm new to Dialang. Reineke writes better analysis and advice.

That was me hoping you would cover areas I didn't want to go into, and you did not disappoint:
reineke wrote:That writing sample was awful.
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Re: Smallwhite needs help with English expressions

Postby Ani » Tue Feb 20, 2018 9:34 am

This battle of concision is torture for me to watch. How can you two talk so much with so few words?

Me, I'd need to write 3-6 paragraphs each to be comfortable expressing what you've written in any of these last few posts.
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Re: Smallwhite needs help with English expressions

Postby reineke » Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:05 pm

Ani wrote:Also.. haiku challenge.. need I say more? Who's in?
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Postby rdearman » Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:30 pm

reineke wrote:
Ani wrote:Also.. haiku challenge.. need I say more? Who's in?

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Re: Smallwhite needs help with English expressions

Postby reineke » Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:34 pm

smallwhite wrote:But then I'm new to Dialang. Reineke writes better analysis and advice.

That was me hoping you would cover areas I didn't want to go into, and you did not disappoint:
reineke wrote:That writing sample was awful.


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