Thread: Let's go to your place

Originally Posted by chaika

So let's see if I understand British.

Three guys standing around at night coming out of a bar. One says "Well, what'll we do now?" Someone else says "Let's go to yours."

Is that the context you'd use it in?

Yep.

Originally Posted by TATY

Yes. You can say that or "Let's go to yours".

I did a google search on "let's go to yours" and I only got 6 hits.
Two of them are from this site.

Google's not the best indicator for conversational language.

Originally Posted by basurero

Google's not the best indicator for conversational language.

You know some better way? I mean apart from asking people.

Originally Posted by net surfer

Originally Posted by basurero

Google's not the best indicator for conversational language.

You know some better way? I mean apart from asking people.

Google works fine for conversational phrases even if they are not proper English. For example, I googled the phrase "who are you going with" and got 65,000 hits.

The phrase "let's go to yours" sounds a bit strange to me. And when I googled it, I only got 6 hits. I think it is better to say "let's go to your place".

It's not a big thing. Everyone will understand you either way.

I just googled your momma, and got loads of hits.

Как спросить "Куда мы приехали / прибыли?"

...(To?) where have we arrived?...

I hope Оля has learned her lesson now. When speaking to an attractive American, she can say "Let's go to your place." This situation just isn't likely to come up in the UK.
:P :P :P

Originally Posted by Оля

Как спросить "Куда мы приехали / прибыли?"

...(To?) where have we arrived?...

Probably, just "where are we?"
That sounds natural to me, even after just arriving someplace.

Originally Posted by scotcher

"Seppos" is OK for every day use, but "merkins" is better when you're having a pop.

The best use of "merkin" was in Dr. Strangelove. The American President's name was Merkin Muffley. Classic.

[quote=Matroskin Kot]

Originally Posted by "Оля":pknsnlsk

Как спросить "Куда мы приехали / прибыли?"

...(To?) where have we arrived?...

Probably, just "where are we?"
That sounds natural to me, even after just arriving someplace.[/quoteknsnlsk]

I agree. I am trying to figure how to fit the word "arrived" in the sentence but I cannot. In this case a literal translation is not possible.

Например: We arrived at the office at 5 pm. I arrived at Sean's house while he was still at work. When did you arrive?

Well if Куда мы приехали? is bad Russian (is it? I don't know), then you could use a parallel bad English sentence, Where have we arrived at? (9 hits on Google, btw).

Originally Posted by chaika

Well if Куда мы приехали? is bad Russian (is it? I don't know)

No. "Куда мы приехали?" is perfect Russian.

I think "Where are we now?" is better than "Where are we?", is it?

Arrived is pretty formal. If you're just talking to your friends I'd say "What time did you/we/they get there".

I think "Where are we now?" is better than "Where are we?", is it?

Well, say you're in a new city and you get lost. You stop and ask for directions and start moving again. Then soon you're lost again, you can say "Where are we now?". As in "where are we this time?".

You could also say "Where are we now" in a situation like. Hmmm how do you explain.

Say like, again, you're going somewhere for the first time, and you weren't really paying attention when you got there you can ask kinda like "So where are we now?".

With the stress on "where" instead of "now" and the tone of voice doesn't really change. At least, how I say it.

Originally Posted by shadow1

Originally Posted by TATY

Yes. You can say that or "Let's go to yours".

I did a google search on "let's go to yours" and I only got 6 hits.
Two of them are from this site.

I don't care what fucking google says. I know what people say here and that is what they say. And Scotcher who is also British agress, so shut up.

And FYI "Let's go to mine", which is the same construction has almost 40,000 hits.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q= ... e%22&meta=

I was actually going to post a quote saying, as an American living in England, that "lets go to yours" is most probably only used in the UK, as I can't recall ever hearing it in the states...

So I'm with Taty and Scotcher. You should let people know what is spoken and where, but not tell them what to say (when you don't know what you're talking about).

This is a fairly old post but I'm just kind of shocked over the nationalistic hostility which erupted over a simple disagreement around a phrase.

In case no one knew, "merkin" is a term denoting false pubic hair used by loose women to disguise genital lice. As such, it's a highly degrading term to use for Americans....

While you may be considerate of the fact that there are other countries besides England in the world, the use of the term suggests that you have no especial consideration for the fact that there are other people in the world outside that soddy little tit of an island, who might in fact be just like you (however regrettable that might seem).

Children say "Lets go to yours" because they hear other children saying it. They hear it on soap shows on the TV. It is Northern English and sounds totally unnatural to a lot of English speakers - especially if you live in the South.

"Let's go to your place" is much more normal.

Originally Posted by Trzeci_Wymiar

This is a fairly old post but I'm just kind of shocked over the nationalistic hostility which erupted over a simple disagreement around a phrase.

In case no one knew, "merkin" is a term denoting false pubic hair used by loose women to disguise genital lice. As such, it's a highly degrading term to use for Americans....

While you may be considerate of the fact that there are other countries besides England in the world, the use of the term suggests that you have no especial consideration for the fact that there are other people in the world outside that soddy little tit of an island, who might in fact be just like you (however regrettable that might seem).

Shut it, sweetheart.