Comments on: Do You Mind?!

By: Miroslav Popov

Miroslav Popov — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:18:07 +0000

As I remember I’ve seen the “Mind the gap” phrase in Central Station New York. And not this was most puzzling but the different type of train tickets. I’m not sure what the options were something like regular, pick, off-pick… I bought not the cheaper one. In the train the conductor told me “Too much tickets” and gave me an advice: “Always buy the cheapest one. If it necessary, you can pay the rest in the train”.

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:55:24 +0000

I have also heard the phrase “mind the gap” in many of the Indian railway stations also. In India English is almost similar to British English.

By: Tania

Tania — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:41:14 +0000

Hi ! You are right , Peter . Very nice “Spending Time with Family ” . Nice and sad . It touches something from our hearts .
Time slips by while we are not paying attention .
We all work our butt off , but at what cost ?
I like to stop and to smell the roses or at least to admire them every day if I could .

Stop and smell the roses . It deserves .

Tania

By: Clara

Clara — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:27:13 +0000

Dear Lucy,
when I was first in London my English was worse than now and on the Tube continuously I could hear a phrase without being able to understand the meaning. Now you unveil the mystery: it was “Mind the gap!”. Thanks, your post are always interesting; what a pity I haven’t sufficient memory to remember at least the majority of your explanation. It takes patience: it’s a trouble of the age, but I don’t intend to give up.

Clara from Italy

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:20:47 +0000

Dear Jeff and Lucy,
You outdid yourself again!

Kudos on the episode 532 . Perfect,in deed. I picked up more than few(LOL) out of it. I took a lot away from the episode.My favourite one is the cautionary tale, I had no clue about that and some others like stop and smell the roses ,literally love it. I consider this episode as my christMASS gift. I can’t wait to use cautionary tale and stop and smell the roses in a social setting. Even you can use them some how as social satire. Definitely,I am gonna brag about them.I am gonna be totally haughty about it. You know one of those fantastic moments that you feel superiority but feign humility.

Indeed Espod is perfect in so many ways.

You guys keep flipping me with the grip you have on your mother tongue.

There is one question standing out, though. Please tell me what you don’t know,seriously.
P.S. I don’t like rides either

By: roberto

roberto — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:27:44 +0000

Thank you Lucy!

Now, I have a great sentence to say to my children: MIND YOUR PARENTS, because when I say it in Spanish they don´t understand or phehaps they don´t want to understand. Well guys, you know, that´s life with little people.
By the way, thank you Peter to remind us the importance of capital letters in English because sometimes we forget to use them.

Roberto.

By: Tania

Tania — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:57:09 +0000

Hi ! Peter , I think you try to write poetries . Are you an unknown poet or a misunderstood one ?

Way to go !

Tania

By: Clover

Clover — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:36:37 +0000

I feel very good each time I read the articles of your blog.Can learn new knowledge of english and english culture. I ‘d like to ask a question about the meaning of “make sense”.Thank you very much.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:09:54 +0000

Hm, hope, Jeff is not that kind who likes sweets.

By: Edu

Edu — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:00:37 +0000

Lucy, would you mind if Jeff eats you chocolate bar?

British English has its own characteristics.

Nice blog.