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"Go Dutch" - is it slang word?



 
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"Go Dutch" - is it slang word? #1 (permalink) Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:01 am   "Go Dutch" - is it slang word?
 

Could I ask if want to say someone pay their own for dinner.
How should I say?

* go dutch ?? is it slang word?
and How to made a sentence?

We all go dutch ?
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Go dutch? #2 (permalink) Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:24 am   Go dutch?
 

Yes,you may say so or just we go dutch
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Go dutch #3 (permalink) Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:35 am   Go dutch
 

Hi,

Probably you would say: Let's go dutch/Shall we go dutch?

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Go dutch? #4 (permalink) Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:07 am   Go dutch?
 

Thanks a lot. Alan & Pamela

so can I say.
Shall we go dutch at ABC hotel tonight?

and say go dutch is it not polite?
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Go dutch? #5 (permalink) Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:00 am   Go dutch?
 

Yes,you may say Shall we go dutch at ABC hotel tonight?.Let's go dutch.... is also feasible here
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Go dutch? #6 (permalink) Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:07 am   Go dutch?
 

We go dutch sounds like a statement and I meant a statement but not question,but if you suggest to go dutch or ask to go dutch -let's go dutch and shall we go dutch? are the best variants
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