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Post by Humph on Aug 29, 2024 13:06:33 GMT
Aye, but you’d still get “on” a horse or a bike.
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Post by Alanović on Aug 29, 2024 13:16:15 GMT
Well, yeah. Probably an exception to that in some parts of Wales, though.
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Post by WDB on Aug 29, 2024 13:20:19 GMT
Isn’t it interesting that if we are going to the airport, we would get “in” a car to get there and then get “on” an aeroplane. Unless we were French, in which case we’d be ‘in’ all of them. Or German, when we’d be ‘with’. Just for fun, both derive from the Latin preposition ‘in’, which can mean either ‘in’ or ‘on’. ‘In triclinio’ means ‘in the dining room’, but ‘in mensa’ means ‘on the table’. I don’t know the Latin for ‘aeroplane’.
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Post by Humph on Aug 29, 2024 13:22:41 GMT
Exactly. No wonder the world is in such a mess. No one really knows what they’re doing.
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Post by Humph on Aug 29, 2024 13:31:14 GMT
…here’s another one, I’ve often heard people say they learned to drive “on” something. E.G. “I learned on a Nissan Micra” when in fact they were “in” one at the time.
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Post by WDB on Aug 29, 2024 13:34:26 GMT
Always found that ‘on’ awkward. Although pilots talk of being ‘qualified on the A320’, which is pretty much the same usage.
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Post by Humph on Aug 29, 2024 13:35:25 GMT
Aeroplanum
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Post by Humph on Aug 29, 2024 13:55:46 GMT
Assuming such a trip was necessary, would you rather be in a submarine or on one? Or indeed a spacecraft. I’m favouring in, for all manner of practical reasons.
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Post by bpg on Aug 29, 2024 14:03:16 GMT
With German I thought you were in a train as they say austeigen aus which is out of.
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Post by Humph on Aug 29, 2024 14:06:39 GMT
…and if they say it loudly and there’s a brass band playing at the station, trust me, run like feck… 😉
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Post by WDB on Aug 29, 2024 14:15:10 GMT
With German I thought you were in a train as they say austeigen aus which is out of. I was thinking of fahren mit dem Zug.
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Post by bpg on Aug 29, 2024 14:21:27 GMT
They always drive with everything even though they aren't driving. It's a wonder we manage to translate anything really.
P.S. I wasn't trying to correct your German, mine is rubbish but I generally get my point across. Just shout and sound angry seems to work unless you're talking to someone Swiss then you sing to them.
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Post by Humph on Aug 29, 2024 14:30:12 GMT
I was sent to work at a Swiss factory when I was a young management trainee. I thought I spoke and understood German to a reasonable standard until I got there… 😬
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Post by Alanović on Aug 29, 2024 14:31:25 GMT
I thought it was the Austrians you had to sing to. Might as well speak Klingon to the Swiss, their dialect is impenetrable.
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Post by Humph on Aug 29, 2024 14:32:55 GMT
I’ve always thought it’d be like sending someone who had learned English as a second language to work in rural Aberdeenshire.
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