Timeline for Why don't you say "good work" in English?
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| Nov 30, 2018 at 15:31 | history | edited | MetaEd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2018 at 15:29 | history | protected | MetaEd | ||
| Nov 30, 2018 at 11:25 | history | edited | Ahmed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Spelling of sociolinguist.
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| Mar 8, 2018 at 7:29 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/971649163501953024 | ||
| Jan 22, 2018 at 16:34 | answer | added | user277646 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 17:22 | comment | added | Nemo | I agree this is sorta frustrating. I usually end up having to say "have a nice *" instead of "buon *". | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 6:01 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | The way this question is is currently worded, I'd say it's off-topic as Not a Question. You might as well ask why you do use “good job/work” that way in Italian. There's no way of giving any reason why a particular phrase is used idiomatically to mean one thing or another in any given language. The answers given so far instead answer a much more relevant question: how are the phrases used in English, and what is the English equivalent of the Italian phrases? | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 0:29 | comment | added | Mitch | @DavidM: Oh. OK. 'nice work' beginning such a phrase works for me, but 'good work...' at the beginning of a phrase, not as bad as stand alone, still sounds strange to me. | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 0:25 | comment | added | David M | @Mitch After. As in, "Hey, good work on the Komiskey account last week!" It's the same context as nice work. (AmE, too). | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 0:23 | comment | added | Mitch | @DavidM, Oldcat: Oh? Before or after the thing you're referring to? What do you mean when you say that? It sounds really strange to me (AmE). | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 0:23 | answer | added | David M | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 23:59 | comment | added | David M | @Mitch I say good work all the time. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 23:56 | answer | added | nxx | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 19:18 | comment | added | Oldcat | I do say 'Good Work' in English after a task has been completed. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 12:46 | comment | added | Mitch | One often says 'Good Job!' -after- a task has been done. 'Good work' just isn't used. 'Good Luck' is before a task. The sociological reason is the usual: 'Because that's just what you say in English' | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 9:53 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 1, 2014 at 9:41 | answer | added | Alicja Z | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 9:38 | history | asked | Ale | CC BY-SA 3.0 |