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To: buwaya

Haha..so funny. actually it just reinforces a suspicion I have about a few if you pro war Ukr types.

A native English speaker would know another very common definition of naked is undisguised or blatant.

Does it take a while to learn English from your native Ukrainian? Im Impressed, really I wish I knew a foreign language.


33 posted on 07/24/2023 6:20:32 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

“I wish I knew a foreign language”

Be encouraged. Not impossible to accomplish.
You are smart enough.. just try


35 posted on 07/24/2023 6:22:51 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine)
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To: Phoenix8

“your native Ukrainian?”

My first language is Spanish!
Second and third are Tagalog and English.
I can also read French reasonably well, so you can’t come at me that way either.
And my Basque is ... improving.

Yes, I am am an international man of mystery.

Humor comes when it comes, intended or not.
Use “naked” at your peril. Be warned, out here there are Beavis&Butthead fans. “He he, she said “naked”!


40 posted on 07/24/2023 6:27:43 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Phoenix8

“I wish I knew a foreign language”

Duolingo, it works. Also start watching videos in your target language.


51 posted on 07/24/2023 6:48:13 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Phoenix8; buwaya; UMCRevMom@aol.com

One of the fun thing about English is there are so many ways you can reuse simple words, like naked. It becomes very funny when the word makes you picture a naked blogger working hard in his basement. also, you can even have fun imaging what is actually hard. Having studied several languages, I can tell you understanding humor in a different language is the last thing most people learn.

My Latina friend and her brother had hysterics listening to the small mistakes my husband made when learning Spanish. For example the radical changing verb poder (to be able), becomes puedo when you say I can. He kept saying no pedo (meaning I can’t) which would come from the verb peder, which I am told means to pass intestinal gas. He kept calling jugo de naranja (orange juice), jugo de arana, for which I cannot figure out how to type with the little zigzag above the n which makes it sound like ny, translated it means spider juice, etc.


76 posted on 07/24/2023 10:49:20 PM PDT by gleeaikin ( Question authority!)
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