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Re: Re: Days of the week (fi: Translation exercise)



John Cowan wrote:

Christian Thalmann wrote:
>> Of course, if somewhere during the process the lady speaks: "Please
> Mr.  Thalmann, I am an innocent young thing, and I am definitely not
> waiting to be abused by a male chauvinist pig like yourself! Behave,
> you naughty boy!", you might as well offer her your bed right away
> and take the couch for yourself.

>Umm, I realize you're handicapped by doing this in an L2 (which is
pretty amazing to begin with, IMHO), but *that* wording could only
be a come-on, not a rejection, in this our English tongue.

Now, now, now!! Sometimes "no" d�es mean "no", doncha know?