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Originally posted by Mordac View PostAnd hopefully one day you'll realise why you lost the argument. I'm not banking on that day happening any day soon though...
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostNo... I think that's normal usage. If you said "we are going to this pub tonight I may say I am au fait with that", and that was common usage in your parts, then that'd be a colloquialism. Incorrect usage can of course transform into the mainstream over time. The great thing about the English language is that it isn't fixed.
Vetran, are you self-identifying as a fictional, large, animate egg?
Jolly good.
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Originally posted by original PM View PostYes but if someone said to me - Opm we are going to this pub tonight I may say I am at home with that - meaning I am comfortable and happy with going to that pub.
Bit of a colloquialism I guess.
Vetran, are you self-identifying as a fictional, large, animate egg?Originally posted by vetran View Post“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
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Originally posted by original PM View PostYes but if someone said to me - Opm we are going to this pub tonight I may say I am at home with that - meaning I am comfortable and happy with going to that pub.
Bit of a colloquialism I guess.
You mean some of our congregation don't understand cultural differences and feel it is ok to correct your mannerisms whilst trying to score points. Blimey I am shocked. Shut the front door!
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostSynonyms are not definitions, they depend very much on context. Au fait has the definition I gave you. Other phrases or words may be appropriate, but you can't simply exchange one word/phrase for another. So "I am at home/comfortable/au fait with the workings of electrical systems" all convey the same idea.
You can't use it in the sense of agreeing with which is what you wanted to convey, I think.
Ignorant and innocent are synonyms. But I'd never say you're innocent.
Bit of a colloquialism I guess.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostSynonyms are not definitions, they depend very much on context. Au fait has the definition I gave you. Other phrases or words may be appropriate, but you can't simply exchange one word/phrase for another. So "I am at home/comfortable/au fait with the workings of electrical systems" all convey the same idea.
You can't use it in the sense of agreeing with which is what you wanted to convey, I think.
Ignorant and innocent are synonyms. But I'd never say you're innocent.
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Originally posted by original PM View Postsynonyms: familiar, acquainted, conversant, at home, up to date, up with, in touch;
I was using it in that context - using I suppose a non literal translation meaning 'at home with' or 'comfortable with'
but obscure I will agree but not 100% incorrect?
You can't use it in the sense of agreeing with which is what you wanted to convey, I think.
Ignorant and innocent are synonyms. But I'd never say you're innocent.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostSince "au fait" means "having a good or detailed knowledge of.", I think most people do. If not 100% then certainly nudging it.
Best stick to a small vocabulary with words and phrases you know the meaning of.
I was using it in that context - using I suppose a non literal translation meaning 'at home with' or 'comfortable with'
but obscure I will agree but not 100% incorrect?
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Originally posted by original PM View PostEvidently not - but then that would imply that not everyone is 100% au fait with the free movement of 100 of thousands of people.
Who would've thought that.
Best stick to a small vocabulary with words and phrases you know the meaning of.
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Originally posted by vetran View PostIndeed calling spooter Lord Haw Haw suggests he might be Irish / American how disgusting!
Lord Haw-Haw - Wikipedia
Though we could describe him as a Scottish nationalist and that might be enough.
Scottish nationalists tried to forge Nazi alliance | UK news | The Guardian
Green :nazi:s
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Originally posted by Mordac View PostBritain doesn't need to build any walls (except perhaps for improving upon that which Hadrian started ) because we have a minimum 22 miles of ocean to keep the unwanted hordes at bay. The barbed-wire fences that have been popping up across Europe don't count as "walls" in your world, I presume?
Who would've thought that.
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Originally posted by Mordac View PostBritain doesn't need to build any walls (except perhaps for improving upon that which Hadrian started ) because we have a minimum 22 miles of ocean to keep the unwanted hordes at bay. The barbed-wire fences that have been popping up across Europe don't count as "walls" in your world, I presume?
Maybe we should build some walls to keep the Russians, Americans & west Germans out! The EU liked it from 1957 to 1989.
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