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Originally posted by Phlabibit
Don't you hate the guy that keeps hitting and talking thinking everyone is listening to his wonderful stories when all YOU want is for him to pass it?

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It really depends on the stories.

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Originally posted by Bowmann
It was a figure of speech.

Do you really think I would go to all the trouble of actually turning up and intervening?
I know it was a figure of speech.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
I know it was a figure of speech.
I knew you knew.

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Originally posted by Bowmann
What's happened to your English? 😲
What's wrong with it? My best guess is that I used "borrow" incorrectly.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
What's wrong with it? My best guess is that I used "borrow" incorrectly.
Borrow and lend are often confused with one another. I have no idea why.

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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
That's what I thought. 😏
You thought? 😲

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Originally posted by Bowmann
Borrow and lend are often confused with one another. I have no idea why.
Well, for us Germans there's a simple reason - "leihen" can mean both. But I actually didn't mix them up in this case, but used the infinitive incorrectly.

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Originally posted by sasquatch672
...no one can resist my sexy lumberjack manliness...
I suppose that would be Monty Python's lumberjack.

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Originally posted by sasquatch672
Nordlys, you were going to do me at the meet-up? I didn't know you cared. However, I can't blame you - no one can resist my sexy lumberjack manliness coupled with my smooth-talking Cary-Grant-like ability to woo women. It's better the meetup didn't happen - you would have been screaming at me, "Say my name, bitch!"
That's about what you said in that thread (getting old?). You are sooooooo wrong.

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Originally posted by Bowmann
Borrow and lend are often confused with one another. I have no idea why.
In some languages it is the same verb, only conjugated differently or with an auxiliary verb.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Well, for us Germans there's a simple reason - "leihen" can mean both. But I actually didn't mix them up in this case, but used the infinitive incorrectly.
Did you mean to say:

I also forgot who had offered to lend me his heavy chess board.

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Don't you guys ever get tired of being the biggest nerds the world has ever seen?

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Originally posted by Palynka
In some languages it is the same verb, only conjugated differently or with an auxiliary verb.
I'm talking about English speakers.

They so often use the words borrow, lend and loan incorrectly.

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Originally posted by Bowmann
Did you mean to say:

I also forgot who had offered to lend me his heavy chess board.

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Basically yes.