Re: OT: Mildy OT: "Freedom kiss"?
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 14, 2003, 9:28 |
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Tristan wrote:
> On a note related to my related note which is now quite divergent from
> the original thread, apparently 'People weren't involved in trade during
> the war' or 'The cost structure is making it very difficult for
> businesses to establish there' are perculiarly Australian phrasings. Are
> they? Would they be understood? (Just to clarify, the first doesn't
> refer to a slave-trade, but to people trading *other* things.)
Well, I would say "People weren't trading during the war" for the first,
and I'd say "makes" instead of "is making" in the second; but both do
make perfect sense to me, and would not even strike me as sounding odd.
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