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gerardM Mar 14 Jan - 23:13

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Tx Christian.

gerardM Mer 15 Jan - 19:57

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The "Like" refers to Facebook: you can forget.

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To me, "back" is not the French "dos" but "support"
though not found in my dictionary.
Anyone to confirm?

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gerardM Jeu 23 Jan - 23:41

Guilaine Ven 24 Jan - 15:14

"Who has your back ? "
According to my dictionary :

To back : encourage - efforts, person, venture (: encourager, appuyer, soutenir)
- candidate, bill (: soutenir)

Who has your back = who/m do you favour with your support ?

gerardM Ven 24 Jan - 15:24

Thanks for your confirmation Ghislaine.

Your dictionary is better than mine.
I've got several paper English-only dictionary but I'm too lazzy to open them; I only use my computerized one. Smile

I learned this meaning of "back" or rather "back up" a bit like a baby with their mother Laughing

speaking with American colleages.
"Backup" is the word (and verb) used when we save data from our computer to a different and separate media.
"Back-up" is also the word we use for a person who helps and will replace an employee when they are on vacation (kind of deputy).

gerardM Ven 24 Jan - 16:23

Guilaine Ven 24 Jan - 16:37

I like the definition they give for Monopoly... Quite true !!!

Backup : you teach me something.

Indeed according to my dictionary (app for i.phone Larousse)

Backup disk : sauvegarde
Backup storage : mémoire auxiliaire
Backup plan : de secours
Backup supplies : de réserve
Backup team : remplaçant

gerardM Ven 24 Jan - 17:39

Hello Ghislaine,

Your words make me realise "backup" has to be written in one word.

Effectively, my bilingual dictionay (Hachette-Oxford) displays:

backup / "b&kVp /
I noun
1 (support) soutien m; military renforts mpl; to need backup [police officer, troops] avoir besoin de renforts;
2 (replacement) to keep a battery/car as a backup garder une batterie/voiture de secours;
3 computing sauvegarde f.
II modifier
1 (support) [equipment] de renfort; backup troops renforts mpl; backup supplies réserves fpl;
2 (replacement) [plan, system, vehicle] de secours;
3 computing [file, copy] de sauvegarde.

gerardM Mar 28 Jan - 22:20

MurielB Mer 29 Jan - 13:56

Guilaine a écrit:I like the definition they give for Monopoly... Quite true !!!

Backup : you teach me something.

Indeed according to my dictionary (app for i.phone Larousse)

Backup disk : sauvegarde
Backup storage : mémoire auxiliaire
Backup plan : de secours
Backup supplies : de réserve
Backup team : remplaçant

Thanks Guilaine for teaching me words with "backup".Monopoly reminds me all the arguments (fights pirat

)I had with my brothers when I was a little girl

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The link leads to -> What Career Should You Actually Have?

Well.
I post this -found on Facebook- tho it might appear very rude.

"Well tickle my fanny with a feather - who would have thunk!"

Many things to say about this line:
- it appears rude; it's not
- English can be very weird as for example this sentence means
something completely different than what your dictionary will tell you
- so, it's an expression used in a very casual way
- also consider this "thunk", did you ever meet this word?
Again, it's a weird word used in casual speech
In fact, "thunk", here, is the past participle of "to think"
weird hey?
... just a wink to friends of primary school!

Enjoy!

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