Thread: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный (Blogger Alexei Navalny)

Originally Posted by Hanna

Ok since this is a language forum: Just have to laugh because this was such a typically [educated] British way of phrasing it. If you'd said "not quite" or "not necessarily" instead of "definitely", it would have been 100% UK British way of totally axing Russian courts for being extremely corrupt. I.e. the art of understatement, lol.
You say it, but you didn't actually say it... That's an aspect of (UK) English that most non-native speakers never learn, even after decades in Britain. Americans don't really use it either.

Don't you mean that the art of being direct is not quite a top priority in British tradition?

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Don't you mean that the art of being direct is not quite a top priority in British tradition?

Oh no, youtube quotes don't work anymore.. or is it just me?