▲ 517 ▼ Crazy Brits rule (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 month ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 120 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 child) That's pretty good! Is the context where if you had said can i drink coffee before, it would have been less ambiguous? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago Might work in Portuguese. In my original example it wouldn’t work in German. "Zusammen einen Kaffee trinking gehen" (to go drink a coffee together) still doesn’t imply that you actually drink coffee, it more implies that you just get a small thing together. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago Might work in Portuguese. In my original example it wouldn’t work in German. "Zusammen einen Kaffee trinking gehen" (to go drink a coffee together) still doesn’t imply that you actually drink coffee, it more implies that you just get a small thing together. permalink fedilink source parent