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CONFUSED ABOUT VOCABULARY
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monder78
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CONFUSED ABOUT VOCABULARY
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Hello Dear Fellow Teachers , Please help me with the following vocabulary items :
1. Do witches from faily tales fly/ride a besom or a broomstick ?What �s the difference ? 2. What monsters are little children usually scared by their parents if they keep being naughty and don �t mend their ways ? 3.Signs of passing time /passage of time is it correct ? 4.Do you use the word fish porkolt or fish goulash ? (a mixture of different ingredients , chiefly fish, some spices in a tin ) 5. What does a mechanic do with a dent is a car to remove it ? what is the proper word ? what can a service man do to make the mileage smaller ? 6. Do you withdraw a formal complaint ? Thank you so much. I am aware that for a native speaker those questions are as easy as ABC :)
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3 May 2015
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yanogator
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1. A witch flies on a broomstick, rides on a broomstick, or rides a broomstick. The three are interchangeable. 2. Many people would call that bad parenting. I think the most common, at least in the US, is the Boogey Man (spelled many different ways). 3. signs of the passage of time is little more common, although I think signs of passing time is OK, too.
4. I have never heard of fish goulash, but I �m sure that porkolt is purely a Hungarian word. It might be used in other parts of Europe, but definitely not in the US. 5. I think a person hammers out a dent, although there are other means available. It �s illegal, but you roll back the odometer to reduce the mileage. 6. Yes, you withdraw a complaint. Bruce |
3 May 2015
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cunliffe
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Agree with Bruce and I will add: 2.Yes, the bogey man, although I haven �t heard it for a while. Nowadays a bogey is a green thing up your nose. 3. The passing of time. 4. We all use the word goulash, but it �s usually used for meat dishes. We say fish stew and in a restaurant, we expect it to be called bouillabaisse. Lynne
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3 May 2015
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monder78
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Thx , you are reliable as usual :) Perfect answers |
3 May 2015
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yanogator
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I checked in my Hungarian cookbook and would like to expand on #4, now that I �m clear on what porkolt is. I have a recipe for pontyporkolt (carp porkolt) as well as chicken and veal porkolts. Since the small amount of liquid that is used is cooked off, these are not stews. So I think the closest term we have in English (although it �s actually French) is ragout. One more note, which unfortunately confuses the issue, is that porkolt is in the chapter called Traditional Stews. Bruce |
3 May 2015
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yanogator
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Lynne, "Fish medley" would make me think of a variety of fish cooked together. According to my Hungarian cookbook, porkolt (which literally means "seared") is a way of cooking meat, poultry or fish with vegetables in very little liquid, until the liquid is gone, so I still think "fish ragout" is the closest term we have. Bruce |
3 May 2015
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cunliffe
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Fair enough, Bruce. I think part of the trouble with labelling this dish is that it �s not really a dish we cook. Although it does sound very tasty... |
3 May 2015
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yanogator
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Very good point, Lynne. I guess it would be best just to call it "fish porkolt", since porkolt isn �t something that �s made in other countries. We call crepes by their French name and schnitzel by its German name, so keeping its Hungarian name certainly has a precedent. Bruce
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3 May 2015
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Jayho
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Regarding no 5
If it is a big dent a panelbeater will fix it, remove it,or knock it out, with a mallet and the repaint the panel. However, there is new technology now where the repairperson will massage it. No kidding!
My recipe books says that Porkolt is a Hungarian stew. |
3 May 2015
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yanogator
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Yes, Jayho, the books call it a stew, but if you read the recipe, you �ll see that the liquid is cooked out, so I don �t think stew is the right word for it. Bruce
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3 May 2015
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