How’s it going guys? It’s Min here!<\/p>\n
The most common question to ask when going out for dinner with a friend is asking them what they would like to eat. This may sound like an easy task but recently I have struggled getting the message across.<\/p>\n
So a few days ago, I was texting a friend.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Friend: “I heard there’s this new cafe that opened up nearby.”<\/p>\n
Me: “Oh, what do they serve?”<\/p>\n
Friend: “You know, the usual. Burgers, parma, steak.”<\/p>\n
Me: “Hmm but I feel like dumplings.”<\/p>\n
Friend: “What!? How can you feel like dumplings? You’re not that fat.”<\/p>\n
Me: “Huh?”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
By the way, “dumpling” can also be used to describe someone who is short and fat.<\/p>\n
So that’s when I started to break my sentence down.<\/p>\n
“I feel like dumplings.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I guess what I was trying to say was “I feel like having\/eating<\/span> dumplings”. However, it did not really occur to me that what I said was being misinterpreted by my non-Australian friend.<\/p>\n So my friend thought I meant:<\/p>\n “I feel like dumplings.” (\u79c1\u306f\u9903\u5b50\u306b\u306a\u3063\u305f\u6c17\u304c\u3059\u308b\u3002)<\/p>\n But what I meant was:<\/p>\n “I feel like (having\/eating) dumplings.” (\u79c1\u306f\u9903\u5b50\uff08\u304c\u98df\u3079\u305f\u3044\uff09\u6c17\u5206\u3002)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is more natural in Australia (and possibly other English speaking countries) to leave out “having\/eating” because it is quicker and easier to say.<\/p>\n So next time when someone asks you out for a meal, you can try asking them “what do you feel like having?” and see what the response is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How’s it going guys? It’s Min here! The most common question to ask when going out for dinner with a friend is asking them what they would like to eat. This may sound like an easy task but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":3490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,5],"tags":[212],"class_list":{"0":"post-3478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-native","8":"category-learning","9":"tag-212","10":"article cf"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}