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Ipodmini Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

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Do not slurp the soup. The soup spoon is used by moving the spoon away from you. Do not over fill the spoon.

What does the sentence in red mean? and why?
  

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Hmmmm, not easy to explain. To fill the soup spoon dip it in the bowl of soup. Then fill it by tipping it away from your body (so that the underneath of the spoon is nearer to you than the top) and moving it from the front of the bowl to the back in a gentle scooping motion.

  • Hmmmm, not easy to explain.
  • To fill the soup spoon dip it in the bowl of soup.
  • Then fill it by tipping it away from your body (so that the underneath of the spoon is nearer to you than the top) and moving it from the front of the bowl to the back in a gentle scooping motion.
  • Why?
  • this seems to be a little etiquette lesson and there are few logical 'whys' about etiquette.
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Hmmmm, not easy to explain.

To fill the soup spoon dip it in the bowl of soup. Then fill it by tipping it away from your body (so that the underneath of the spoon is nearer to you than the top) and moving it from the front of the bowl to the back in a gentle scooping motion.

Why? this seems to be a little etiquette lesson and there are few logical 'whys' about etiquette. It's j

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