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What Are You Doing for New Year's Eve?
serious crayons:
OMG. [Blushing smiley!] This is really humiliating and humbling -- not just to have my grammatical error noticed by a non-native-English speaker, but especially THAT particular grammatical error, which always always makes me scoff when other people make it!
And native English speakers make it all the time. I always think, "Duh, if you took the 'brother' and 'sons' out of the sentence, would you say 'My step-mother took I out to lunch?' No? Then what's your problem??"
I guess the error is common because people with REALLY bad grammar are likely to say "Me and my brother took my step-mother out to lunch." So teachers harp on the fact that it should be "My brother and I." So then people, trying too hard to be correct, stick with "I" even when "I" is the object of the sentence rather than the subject.
In my case, the only excuse I can offer is that it was 1:30 a.m. and I'd had a lot of wine with dinner.
Meryl:
--- Quote from: crayonlicious on January 02, 2011, 03:27:05 am ---Tonight my brother and some close friends and I had crab legs, prime rib of beef, smoked-salmon spread, risotto, haricots verts with bacon, flan, krumkake and a few other things. A NYE dinner got delayed until NYD, partly because the weather was bad yesterday, partly because I had a touch of the flu. I made a few of the things, and supplied the venue.
On Thursday I had cassoulet, too, Meryl! My step-mother took my brother and sons and I out to lunch. So cassoulet, champagne and a little trois-creme dessert that included pot de crème, crème broulet and crème caramel.
Meryl, your and John's tradition sounds really wonderful. Happy belated Hogmany, Meryl and everyone!
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We're on the same wave-length, Katherine! I never had had cassoulet before, but I could see making it a tradition on New Year's. I think Jack and Ennis would have gone for it, too. 8)
Your dinner sounds delish. What exactly is krumkake?
Don't worry about the grammatical error! I think the late hour and the wine are a perfectly valid excuse. Kudos to Chrissi, though, for making her English studies count. ;)
Monika:
--- Quote from: Meryl on January 01, 2011, 02:58:19 pm ---I had a nice supper of crab legs at home with good friends and watched the ball drop. Could hear the fireworks banging away over in Central Park. Happy 2011! :D
On Thursday John Gallagher and I continued a tradition begun last year of going out on New Year's Eve eve. We ate dinner on the Lower East Side at Mary Queen of Scots and celebrated an early Hogmanay. It was the perfect place to bestow the last of my Edinburgh purchases on a friend: a lamb's wool tartan scarf bought on the Royal Mile. :D John gave me a tiny Gumby sitting on a blue horse and a fun book called "Lexicon of Musical Invective," a compilation of horrible reviews given to famous composers. ;D
We ate a hearty winter dinner of cassoulet, boudin noir, Scotch salmon salad, pork belly, chips with curry sauce and fried Brussels sprouts, washed down with a gin cocktail, good red wine and a Smuttynose IPA lager. Dessert was Scotch ice cream made with Laphroaig. Yum!
Next we walked a few blocks uptown and had Australian coffee at the Tuck Shop, a great little hole-in-the-wall that specializes in meat pies. Our Swedes have visited there, too, as has oilgun. 8)
We finished up, as we did last year, with a stop at Cafe Mogador. John had port wine and I had Moroccan mint tea and orange almond cake. We parted at the L train station around midnight. Thanks, dear friend, for another great Gallagher-esque evening! :-*
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Love reading about your and John´s new tradition. Sounds like a great time and great food and drinks were being had!
And especially that Scotch ice cream.....mmmmmm
Thanks for the ling to the Australian coffee place, Meryl. I remember wondering about that a while back and exactly where it was located.
Happy New Year!
Meryl:
--- Quote from: Buffymon on January 02, 2011, 01:03:29 pm ---Love reading about your and John´s new tradition. Sounds like a great time and great food and drinks were being had!
And especially that Scotch ice cream.....mmmmmm
Thanks for the ling to the Australian coffee place, Meryl. I remember wondering about that a while back and exactly where it was located.
Happy New Year!
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Yeah, the Scotch ice cream was interesting--kind of had a smoky taste. Glad I could help out with the link. Happy New Year to you, too, Monika! 8)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Meryl on January 02, 2011, 12:50:35 pm ---Your dinner sounds delish. What exactly is krumkake?
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Krumkake is (are?) a crunchy Swedish cookie, lightly flavored with cardamon. Imagine a really flat pancake made in a press like a waffle iron with an elaborate flowery design, then rolled into a cylinder maybe 1 to 2 inches in diameter. My friend received a krumkake iron for Christmas from her family, so she made them, as well as the flan. She filled them with whipped cream, making them a little like Swedish cannoli.
--- Quote ---Don't worry about the grammatical error! I think the late hour and the wine are a perfectly valid excuse. Kudos to Chrissi, though, for making her English studies count. ;)
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I never stop being astounded by the English skills of our EuroBrokies. :D
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