Timeline for What does “put it in English” mean in broadcasting context?
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| Nov 13, 2012 at 8:15 | vote | accept | Yoichi Oishi | ||
| Nov 13, 2012 at 7:21 | answer | added | user867 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 13, 2012 at 4:57 | comment | added | Kris | No, that would be too naive, and bland. The idea is to put a sting into it by implying that the statement was not quite English in the first place, being alien to the general (even native American) English speaker. | |
| Nov 13, 2012 at 2:05 | answer | added | AlwaysBTryin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 12, 2012 at 21:26 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | Though it may sound’s sour grapes, I wouldn’t be bothered if Arnon Mishkin’s instruction were “put it in plain English.” But I felt it odd to say “put it in English” to American audience, because it sounds like an American demanding a non-English speaker to speak in English. | |
| Nov 12, 2012 at 9:49 | answer | added | adhocgeek | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 12, 2012 at 6:13 | answer | added | Chris | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 12, 2012 at 6:08 | history | edited | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 12, 2012 at 4:40 | comment | added | Kris | "... in (plain) English" is a (usu. sarcastic) way of saying "stripped of jargon, this is what it means" -- look up the idiom "in plain English". | |
| Nov 12, 2012 at 3:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/267839105633771520 | ||
| Nov 12, 2012 at 3:45 | answer | added | ayla | timeline score: 9 | |
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| Nov 12, 2012 at 1:55 | history | edited | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 12, 2012 at 1:35 | history | asked | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |