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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #46 (permalink) Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:27 am   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

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Folks, that stuff is for INFORMAL WRITING ONLY!
Exactly! And any English expert who marks an ESL test should not only be able to identify ROTFL (after all, it is extremely well-known), but also the register and context for which it is appropriate. :D
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #47 (permalink) Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:01 am   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

you are cute,
you are pretty
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #48 (permalink) Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:14 am   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Hi Amy,

Note that there are people who know almost nothing about "chatroom English". Queen Elizabeth didn't know that much about it until very recently.

All the best

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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #49 (permalink) Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:26 am   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Hi Englishuser,

What is the connection between the Queen and ESL professionals? Why are you so obsessed with the Queen, are you a PR manager of the Royal Family?

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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #50 (permalink) Fri Jun 01, 2007 16:09 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

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The image of Queen Liz participating in an online chatroom tickles my fancy. :wink:
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #51 (permalink) Fri Jun 01, 2007 16:32 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Amy64573: Yo, QE2, what do you like to do?

TheQueenofEngland123: We like to play with our dogs.
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #52 (permalink) Fri Jun 01, 2007 18:54 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

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Do you think there's any chance she might dispense with "the royal we" in that particular context? :lol:
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notice #53 (permalink) Fri Jun 01, 2007 19:35 pm   notice
 

Hi,

Just a thought. Maybe we should apply for a notice to be put on our site:
By appointment to Her Majesty.
After all, marmalade manufacturers can use this on their products if it is known that the good lady tucks into a spot of 'marmers' made by them on her jolly old toast, don't you know. What a spiffing idea. I warm to the whole concept of this the more I think of it. Who knows EU might get an invite to a Buckingham Palace tea party for her services to the royal cause. Then the two of them could have a right old gas together as they sip their Earl Grey and sink their gnashers into the cucumber sandwiches, so carefully prepared by the royal Maker of the Sandwiches. What a jolly time they would indeed have. My mouth waters at the prospect. Just imagine EU and Queenie deep in conversation lamenting the poor standard of English currently employed by the riff raff and their ragtail chums. How their hands would gesticulate! How their minds would unite in a mutual admiration for the good old days when Britain ruled the waves and an Englishman's word was his bond. When the English language flourished and wasn't sullied with those most horrible and terribly frightful Americanisms that creep into the most beautiful of languages. How the dogs (pronounced dawgs) would yelp in agreement and her eldest son would clap his hands and join in the memories of the past.

Alas this is but a pipe dream. I hold back my tears with my stiff upper lip (a difficult task even for a contortionist) and close as I look through my rose coloured spectacles.

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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #54 (permalink) Fri Jun 01, 2007 21:09 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Alan, I'd forgotten all about "tucks into" as a way to say "eats".

Thanks for using it... cool phrase.
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #55 (permalink) Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:35 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Hello Maggie,

I just want to share an experience. There was a guy who praised me by using toothpicks and the adjectives other forumers had mentioned above.

What he did was, he bent 5 toothpicks one at a time while praising and saying all the beautiful things. And he placed each of them in a circle on a saucer (with the bent part in the middle, almost touching each other) and at the end he poured 2 or 3 drops of water in the middle.

And voila! the toothpicks moved slowly and formed a star! This is when he said " This is the shape of my heart when I met you. " I think. :?: It was 2 or 3 years ago.

I was so impressed by the trick I totally neglected him. I tried it with my boyfriend and he also was too distracted to notice everything I said.

We ended up discussing surface tension. Now that, is romantic :)

Give it a try. I highly recommend it. But be ready to be neglected.

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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #56 (permalink) Mon Jun 04, 2007 21:01 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Hi Alan,

I like your idea, and I fancy the way you write:

Quote:
What a SPIFFING idea.


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tucks into a spot of 'marmers' made by them on her JOLLY OLD TOAST


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and sink their GNASHERS into the cucumber sandwiches, so carefully prepared by the ROYAL MAKER OF THE SANDWICHES.


Some other comments:

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How the dogs (pronounced dawgs) would yelp in agreement and her eldest son would clap his hands and join in the memories of the past.


I hope you pronounce "dogs" that way! The idea of the dogs yelping in agreement is really cute.

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Alas this is but a pipe dream.


Fortunately, even something that would seem like a "pipe dream" might become true. One never knows.

All the best

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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #57 (permalink) Tue Jun 05, 2007 23:30 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

lol, Nina

And, yeah, I'm with EU in admiring Alan's (sometimes) delightful prose.
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #58 (permalink) Wed Jun 06, 2007 20:38 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

hi everybody, im new here ....
i prefer to use the word gorgeous to describe e beautiful woman!!!!!!! :D
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #59 (permalink) Thu Jun 07, 2007 14:53 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Good choice.
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #60 (permalink) Tue Jun 12, 2007 19:37 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Hi,
Just a random thought: what if I say to a chick "you look awesome"? Is it cool, or does it suck in that context?
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