Not sure it's that simple sadly, yet again. What about this: "That was really quite good wine last night"?
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Replying to @o_guest @RolfZwaan and
In the UK that wine is worse than "really good wine"; in the US it's better.
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Replying to @LisaDeBruine @RolfZwaan and
I disagree. If somebody told me something was "really quite good" that means it's ace.
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Replying to @o_guest @LisaDeBruine and
depends how it is said - if said with deadpan face and flat voice, probably an insult. If said with even mild enthusiasm, strong endorsement
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Replying to @blahah404 @o_guest and
British English is carefully constructed around allowing Brits to feel superior by making sure nobody else knows what's going on in convo
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Replying to @blahah404 @LisaDeBruine and
Yep. French people dropped the end off every word to confuse the poor. Brits just mock them mercilessly with words dripping with classism.
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Replying to @o_guest @LisaDeBruine and
Best resources for learning this are Blackadder and Yes Minister. You can tell when meaning is different than words because audience laughs
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Replying to @blahah404 @LisaDeBruine and
OMG that's what was suggested above, literally 100% identical suggestions. Haha. Great minds, etc.
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Replying to @o_guest @blahah404 and
Also unless you're from the Anglosphere (with the exception of Americans) nobody tells you British people are old school classist until you
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Replying to @o_guest @blahah404 and
move here. I was told repeatedly and often "You're foreign — what class is a Cypriot anyway?" or similar so I eventually got the memo.
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18-year-olds can be good gauges of the rest of the social landscape as they understand enough to verbalise it but not enough to be tactful.
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