Posted by guillermo maynez
on 20/12/2011, 16:58:12, in reply to "Re: Your less favourite word"
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Well, we have very marked cultural differences, for sure, between our countries. Potluck parties would be considered rude, only for miserable, cheap people. With two exceptions: very young people who can't afford to finance a whole party (but then they collect some coins and order pizza or tacos); or small dinner parties by close friends or family,
A cultural shock I had when I went to live for two years in the US, is that party invitations tell you when the party will end, and then they actually (if politely) throw you away. In Mexico the habit (which can be annoying, for sure) is to wait until your guests decide to go.
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: My wife and I also do not like to cook--at least not for
: a large group. We host an annual family Christmas
: dinner for 12 people, and for the last two years we've
: just ordered entrées from local restaurants. But we
: did have our guests bring the appetizers and desserts.
: I wouldn't call that "potluck," though,
: since we told them specifically what to bring. Potluck
: is when you get six green bean casseroles and a bag of
: chips.
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: The vocal fry is the soft growl at the end of almost
: every word in the sample. For example, at the end of
: "paralyzed" and "disabled."
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: I don't like jargon either, and that includes
: acronyms. I hate when people try to sound like
: insiders by using them, and then act condescending
: when you don't know what they're talking about.
: Another pet peeve is verbal punctuation, as when
: someone says "that new restaurant has a Chinese
: slash Japanese slash Thai menu."
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: You were like, whatever. Hahaha!
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: My sister says like all the time, and it drives me
: crazy. She has a lot of annoying little speech
: mannerisms. And she's been out of school long enough
: now to begin to write the way she speaks.
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: I associate potluck dinners with parties that are not
: just social. My parents often went to them when my
: sister and I were kids. My parents were always selling
: Amway or some other such products and the parties
: seemed related to those. They were parties/meetings.
:
: Why don't you just make that rice of yours?
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: I haven't yet settled on a least favorite English
: word, but there are things that get on my nerves in
: Spanish here. I hate it when I ask people how they are
: and they respond with tranqui. And when they respond
: with todo tranquilo, I wonder if they're on drugs.
: Surely some good drugs are the only excuse for being
: totally tranquil or calm.
:
: Oh, I know, in English, I hate a rather silly sounding
: vulgar word for breasts. I hate all jargon. I hate it
: when applications are called apps and that kind of
: thing.
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