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Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 06, 2021, 10:03:23 am ---...My main movie theater, which is about 10 minutes from here, offers free parking and shows indie-ish movies, has closed, apparently permanently.
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That's a bummer. All of our Indie theaters have closed except one, so I'm getting to know it well.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on May 04, 2021, 06:50:53 am ---...now they can hold their horses for a little longer ...
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Great saying! Should be a Brokieism if it's not. Is there such a saying in Germany?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 06, 2021, 10:30:16 am ---That's a bummer. All of our Indie theaters have closed except one, so I'm getting to know it well.
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There are a couple of others here and I'm not sure what their status is currently but they're farther away and parking isn't free.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 06, 2021, 10:32:11 am ---Great saying! Should be a Brokieism if it's not. Is there such a saying in Germany?
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Not sure what you're getting at. This version of hold your horses is mine ;D, if that's what you mean.
In German, we also have sayings along those lines and connected to horses:
"halt die Hufe still" = hold your hooves still. Slightly different meaning than hold your horses; in German it can mean to wait but also to be quiet/not to fidget.
We also have "Immer langsam mit den jungen Pferden" = take it slow with young horses, which also means not to rush something.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on May 08, 2021, 03:10:02 am ---Not sure what you're getting at. This version of hold your horses is mine ;D, if that's what you mean.
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I am always highly impressed by your mastery of not just English but idiomatic English.
Come to think of it, your English -- at least as used here and on FB -- even seems to be the American version. I think you use American spellings (e.g., flavor vs. British flavour), or at least I've never noticed otherwise. Here's a user-friendly list of differences between British and American English
https://www.boredpanda.com/british-american-english-differences-language/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
Obviously you haven't had occasion to use all of these words, but I don't recall ever seeing you use a British version (with the possible exception of "grey," which Americans also use a lot). Yet I would think Europeans would learn British English. Do you know both and just adjust depending on your audience? Or do they teach the American version there? Or have you written "colour" or call a sweater a "jumper" and I just didn't notice? Or ...?
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