Same as with Robin in Australia, sometimes I cannot find out the meaning of the words she uses through a dictionary, so I have to ask her. Meanwhile I have restrikted myself to not reading more than 2 Susanposts per day, because it's so much work for me. Incendiary, knick-knack, skedaddling, flashing shamrock deely-boppers, Begorrah, malice or sleight, misogynistic, funnelling, beano, feisty side, Geezer, pesky, besmirch, abdicate, villain, astroturfing, Here's a list of words I found in her recent threads: While an average english native speaker has a vocabulary of 20.000 word, I think she has 60.000 words to choose from and she does. My best source of new vocbulary is the lovely in Dublin. The airbnb detector never cought me on that. Ever since this incident, whenever I talk about people from that area, I refer to them as „People from an area that starts with „a“ and ends with „rab“. Airbnb has a discriminating word detector in place and whenever such a word pops up, it get's erased and replaced by **bleep**. When I looked how it came out in the community center, I saw this:įor the first time in 15 years, 4 young religious womed from **bleep**,Īll wearing a **bleep**, refused to check into my place bc they didn't like it.Īaaahaaaaa, now I understood. In 2018 I told this story in the Comminity Center. This was the first time in one and a half decades that someone refused to check in. While checking them in they told me that they will not check in, because they didn't like my place. I just couldn't figure out what the meanig of it was.Īnd then this happened: In 2015 I hosted a group of 4 young religious women. But **bleep** came up in so many places and in so many contexts and none of them was bird-relatet. It's easy of course to find out what bleep means, that's the sound a bird makes when it tweets. I continued to read in the english CC and while cruising through the lines, again and again I came across the word „bleep“, and it was always accompanied with 2 asterix' in front and in the back: I forgot which company he was talking about, but it doesn' matter in this context anyway. Have You ever seen that before? I found the word in one of Robins posts:īut company 'jibber jabber' like that don't instill me with confidence. Robin loves to write, he's a great writer an many people in the CC love him for that.īy the way: I learned another word from Robin: You must know one thing: Whenever You drop two lines, he comes back with 37 lines. Then he talked about the expressiveness of the english language, that it's like a river flowing to the sea, about channels and ditches, empty streams, You will state an opinion you don't agree with for the sake of promoting conversation on a subject! Mark Rutte the Dutch Prime Minister may say that no more funds should be made available for EEU bailouts and Angela Merkel may disagree with him and say Germany and France have a duty to support the European community! Although you Ute, agree with Angela Merkel you deliberately take the side of Mark Rutte in order to bring new ideas up that may make both sides agree. He continuoued:Īnd by playing 'Devils Advocate' you deliberately bring alternative ideas to the conversation. You keep on bringing up the same conversation. I will answer one expression with another.Stirring the pot is linked with Playing the devils advocate!! When you 'stir the pot', you keep the contents on the move, you stop them from boiling over but you keep some action going on in the pot! To bring that into context here Uté it means you keep the thought alive and in others minds by reactivating a worthwhile discussion. So I sent Robin a privat message and asked him flat out: Robin, what means stirring the pot? Here's his answer: A while ago some Robin in Australia opened a thread entitled: Sometimes though an online dictionary is not sufficant to find out the meaning of a word or an expression. Next thing I did I created a spreadsheet with all these new words, an airbnb glossary. Whenever I found a word that I didn't know I looked it up in some online dictionary. Because refering words would pop up in this forum for sure and they did. In order to improve my english in this specialised field, I decided to start reading in the english community center. In January 2018 I decided to start listing with airbnb and I thought, I might now get international guest, time to polish up my English.Īt the time my english was kind of ok on a smalltalk-level, what I was completely lacking was the vocabulary around hosting, bedding, cleaning and the like. I've been letting my place in Germany for 16 years through all kinds of distribution channels.
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