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One Sir ?

Discussion in 'Expat Section' started by NowandThen, Jan 16, 2020.

  1. Rye83

    Rye83 with pastrami Admin Secured Account Highly Rated Poster SC Connoisseur Veteran Army

    They certainly know what a bar tab is and will let you run one. Better know the staff and trust them (or don't get drunk enough to lose count).
     
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  2. djfinn6230

    djfinn6230 DI Senior Member

    1. Not possible. 1 is an odd number and the answer must be divisible by 2, an even number.

    2. I believe the answer to your second question would not be relevant due to the likelihood of your falling off your barstool before standing up.
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  3. jim787

    jim787 DI Senior Member

    One factor in the misunderstanding: Flipino English does not recognize the indefinite pronoun a/an. So you think you have already specified "one", but you have not. If you order "one beer" rather than "a beer", the server will understand.
     
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  4. cabb

    cabb DI Forum Patron Highly Rated Poster ✤Forum Sponsor✤

    Problem solved..........it sounds a bit like the he/she mixup thing that happens with my wife. She gets that wrong about 50 percent of the time.
     
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  5. jim787

    jim787 DI Senior Member

    For newcomers, you are referring to the gender-neutral third-person pronoun in Filipino languages (all Western Malayo-Polynesian languages? I don't know). So that many Filipinos will use he/she interchangeably. English-language woke-ists have been struggling to create a gender-neutral equivalent, which made "them" used for the 3rd-person singular a "word of the year" for 2019.
     
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  6. Notmyrealname

    Notmyrealname DI Forum Luminary Highly Rated Poster Showcase Reviewer

    Could it be the subtle way to find out if the tall, lean, handsome expat sitting in front of them is still available?
     
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