Dubai / Middle East Sayings
May 23rd 2017, 9:44 am
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Re: Dubai / Middle East Sayings
"Shifting" when moving house, that's another annoying one.
May 23rd 2017, 10:12 am
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"Overspeeding" while talking on a mobile phone
May 23rd 2017, 11:12 am
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"For a while"
A favourite of the Filipina secretary crowd when putting you on hold to transfer your call.
A couple of others that the press seem particularly keen on, not only in the Middle East:
Crackdown
Why is every attempt at doing the needful (sic) a crackdown?
Hike
Is every price rise so sudden and excessive?
Plying
A staple of the sub continental press where traveling or going might be better.
A favourite of the Filipina secretary crowd when putting you on hold to transfer your call.
A couple of others that the press seem particularly keen on, not only in the Middle East:
Crackdown
Why is every attempt at doing the needful (sic) a crackdown?
Hike
Is every price rise so sudden and excessive?
Plying
A staple of the sub continental press where traveling or going might be better.
May 23rd 2017, 11:17 am
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Re: Dubai / Middle East Sayings
"For a while"
A favourite of the Filipina secretary crowd when putting you on hold to transfer your call.
A couple of others that the press seem particularly keen on, not only in the Middle East:
Crackdown
Why is every attempt at doing the needful (sic) a crackdown?
Hike
Is every price rise so sudden and excessive?
Plying
A staple of the sub continental press where traveling or going might be better.
A favourite of the Filipina secretary crowd when putting you on hold to transfer your call.
A couple of others that the press seem particularly keen on, not only in the Middle East:
Crackdown
Why is every attempt at doing the needful (sic) a crackdown?
Hike
Is every price rise so sudden and excessive?
Plying
A staple of the sub continental press where traveling or going might be better.
Sometimes it's plain illiteracy. I recall an article in Arabian News a few years ago - I think it was a silly pretentious restaurant review - that referred to the "magnanimous food". Despite several mocking comments under the online article, they never changed the original text.
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May 23rd 2017, 3:58 pm
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Whenever I have been in India reading the English language newspapers, they are full of archaic english, words I have never heard of sometimes!
May 23rd 2017, 7:06 pm
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1. Vision
2. Wise leadership
2. Wise leadership
May 24th 2017, 5:21 am
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'Shifting' when used to describe the act of moving house
Words with an unnecessary 's' on the end such as the signs in a mall here that direct you to 'Parkings'
Words with an unnecessary 's' on the end such as the signs in a mall here that direct you to 'Parkings'
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May 24th 2017, 6:00 am
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Would make quite a fun read if someone could put together a short story that was written using just these rather terrible words and terms.
May 24th 2017, 7:13 am
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To Let signs with no gap...Tolet.......always makes me do a double take and think why have they put a toilet here!!
May 24th 2017, 8:19 am
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I did see a sign in a factory in India once that read as follows:
SAFETY SHOWER
CUM BATH
SAFETY SHOWER
CUM BATH
May 24th 2017, 9:36 am
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That's been around in the sense you quote it since the C 15th. Perfectly legitimate use. Don't let the illiterati dumb you down.
May 24th 2017, 9:45 am
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DONT you start now!saw a wanted sign in Dragon Mall outside a shop a while ago
'WANTED LADY MAN'
'SHOP ASSISTANT'
take whatever you want to from that I guess
I even took a picture of it then but for the life of me cant find that pic now