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how to describe/what is it called

 
 
WBYeats
 
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Reply Sat 30 Aug, 2014 12:35 am
Is my sentence correct?:

-Eastern and Western people have different principles of beauty judgements. (=they consider someone beautiful based on different criteria.)

Are there other ways to express the same meaning?
McTag
 
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Reply Sat 30 Aug, 2014 02:55 pm
@WBYeats,

...different opinions about what constitutes beauty

...different standards of what is meant by beauty
WBYeats
 
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Reply Sun 31 Aug, 2014 05:09 am
@McTag,
Thank you~ What should I say to mean 'cut orders at 8 pm' (=the restaurant closes at 8:30, but at 8pm they would not accept food purchase anymore)
Can I say this?:

-Food purchase stops at 8pm, so buy your tickets before that time.
McTag
 
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Reply Sun 31 Aug, 2014 01:26 pm
@WBYeats,

We usually see something like," Last orders 8:00, restaurant closes 8:30"
WBYeats
 
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Reply Sun 31 Aug, 2014 08:53 pm
@McTag,
Thank you~

But I haven't owned a restaurant yet; if I have to tell this to my friend, what would be the complete sentence version?
McTag
 
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Reply Mon 1 Sep, 2014 01:21 am
@WBYeats,

Last orders for food are taken at 08:00, and the restaurant closes at 08:30.
WBYeats
 
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Reply Mon 1 Sep, 2014 07:06 am
@McTag,
Thank you~

1. What is it called when you refer to the act of 'folding down' the screen of the laptop?

-I don't 'fold down' the screen, so that the time during which I am absent from the laptop will be calculated as the time I spend on a forum. If I 'fold down' the screen, internet connection will be shut off; then the server of the forum can't sense my online status and then I can't increase my time recorded online.

2. Are my sentences above natural English?
contrex
 
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Reply Mon 1 Sep, 2014 01:08 pm
@WBYeats,
WBYeats wrote:
What is it called when you refer to the act of 'folding down' the screen of the laptop?

Many people call it 'closing the lid' or 'closing the laptop'.

WBYeats
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2014 07:07 am
@contrex,
Thank you~

What do you say to mean you no longer want to eat a type of food because you've eaten it so many times?:

-I'm ___ Miso soup because...
McTag
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2014 02:52 pm
@WBYeats,

Quote:
What do you say to mean you no longer want to eat a type of food because you've eaten it so many times?:

-I'm ___ Miso soup because...


I've had too much miso soup lately.
I'm fed up with having miso soup all the time.
I've had enough of miso soup for quite a while.
If I never see miso soup again, it'll be too soon.
WBYeats
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2014 08:53 pm
@McTag,
For 'If I never see miso soup again, it'll be too soon. ', is it a typo; if not, why NEVER but not EVER?
McTag
 
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Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2014 01:53 am
@WBYeats,

Both work, if you think about it.
It's a joke obviously, so you don't need to analyse it too deeply.
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contrex
 
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Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2014 11:12 am
@WBYeats,
WBYeats wrote:
For 'If I never see miso soup again, it'll be too soon. ', is it a typo; if not, why NEVER but not EVER?

It is a joke of exaggeration ; a humorous over-extension of a sequence:

If I next see miso soup in a year, it will be too soon (too soon because I don't like miso soup)

If I next see miso soup in ten years, it will be too soon

If I next see miso soup in one hundred years, it will be too soon (beginning to be humorous here, since few people alive now will still be alive in 100 years)

If I next see miso soup in one thousand years, it will be too soon (definitely humorous)

If I never see miso soup again, it will be too soon (you get the idea now?)

InfraBlue
 
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Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2014 12:48 pm
@WBYeats,
WBYeats wrote:

Thank you~

What do you say to mean you no longer want to eat a type of food because you've eaten it so many times?:

-I'm ___ Miso soup because...

"I'm sick of Miso soup because..."
McTag
 
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Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2014 03:15 pm
@InfraBlue,

Miso sick of this soup.
WBYeats
 
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Reply Fri 5 Sep, 2014 11:46 am
@contrex,
Good explanation.
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InfraBlue
 
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Reply Fri 5 Sep, 2014 12:45 pm
@McTag,
What wit!
WBYeats
 
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Reply Sat 6 Sep, 2014 04:09 am
@InfraBlue,
situation:

Someone wants to take a photo of us, including me, who am sitting at a table in the dining hall; but I can't be taken a photo of, because 1. I have photo-taking-phobia; 2. I can't be spotted in a photo; 3. I'm not accustomed to being taken a photo of. Then what natural English can I use if I don't want to give all the embarrassing reasons?
McTag
 
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Reply Sat 6 Sep, 2014 08:01 am
@WBYeats,

1. Piss off.
2. I hate having my picture taken
3. You press that shutter, and I'll ram that thing down your throat/ up your arse
4. No thanks, I'd rather not if it's all the same to you.

Any of these would work okay, depending on your mood at the time.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 6 Sep, 2014 08:19 am
@WBYeats,
WBYeats wrote:

For 'If I never see miso soup again, it'll be too soon. ', is it a typo; if not, why NEVER but not EVER?


it is an idiom
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