Foreign Language Bar of Cosmos

Oh, dear:
In philosophy:
Officer ≈ nobility, isn't it?

English is made up of different languages. Folk means the same as people, butit is used differently. In the same way that skin and hide mean the same thing, both words are used. Skin means human skin and hide is the skin of an animal.

The same is true of people/folk. People comes from the French which was spoken by the Norman invaders. Since the invasion French was the only language spoken in court and many aristocrats couldn’t even speak English. Henry V was the first King since the invasion to useEnglish in court. That meant that from 1066- 1386 French was the language of the court and the law.

People is the more formal of the two words. It’s used in legal documents. Folk is more informal, used when one is trying to be more friendly, less formal. That’s why George W Bush was criticised for using the term folk to describe the perpetrators of the 9/11 atrocity.

The short answers folk means the same as people, but is used in a different setting.

Your explanation is explicit, thank you.
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By the way, what did Bush say tough?

I don’t know exactly, it was a while back, but he referred to the bombers as folk which set the wrong tone.

He then used the term crusade which upset the entire IslamicWorld.

Thank you...
"set the wrong tone"???
Did you mean he said something wrong?

Yes

In the dictionary, the word “wonder” as a verb means “I want to know”. But in practice, piggy feels it means “I want to make clear”.
Anyone can tell piggy what the word “wonder” as a verb means exactly in English? Thanks.

Hi guys, not see you here for a long time. haha
Piggy encountered an English word "workaround" in a fellow guy's post in the philosophy forum but can't understand it exactly. Anyone can help? Thanks.

What does "cotton to " mean exactly in English? "understand"? "know"?
Piggy only knows "cotton" is kind of plant.
Anyone can help?
Thanks.

The phase is to cotton on, it means to understand something, usually if someone has been trying to trick you, or if the subject matter is a bit complicated.

After sending Madame Comfort £5000 to release Paddington Bear from Papua New Guinea I finally cottoned on that it was all a scam.

Thank you, sir.

That what Madame Comfort said before disappearing into the wide blue yonder.

Wrong tone means the type of language used.

Folk is a word that is normally associated with warmth and family, folk music, folk songs, folk crafts, something to do with family life.

By using such a word to describe terrorists showed Bush had problems with English nuance. He should have called them people, ( neutral,) or perpetrators, (criminals.)

I will pm you about English later today.

Workaround would mean how you would deal with such a thing.

We are erecting a new fence around a listed building, certain areas cannot be disturbed to we will have to work around that.

Then, "work aroud" acually means choose another way to go? Flexible in doing something?

What does "the wide blue yonder" mean in English?

It's just somewhere far away.

What does "freaky" mean exactly in English?

It is something very strange, out of the ordinary and against the odds.
For example: Some of the futuristic car designs are freaky.
Having a self driving car is freaking me out.

Got it, thanks.
The word “freaky” means “怪” in Chinese though.