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Changeling Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary
crooked legs
Hi everybody!
I'm writing an article in one of those magazines for women. The target audience speaks AE.
Could you, please, help me with the following:
Crooked legs.
Bandy legs
Knock-knee
Does these phrases sound offensive? Does they sound more like medical terms? Does they make sense to EA ears?
Thanks in advance
I'm writing an article in one of those magazines for women. The target audience speaks AE.
Could you, please, help me with the following:
Crooked legs.
Bandy legs
Knock-knee
Does these phrases sound offensive? Does they sound more like medical terms? Does they make sense to EA ears?
Thanks in advance
Top answer
Crooked legs just sounds weird. Bandy legs sounds medical. Knock-kneed sounds quite old-fashioned.
- Crooked legs just sounds weird.
- Bandy legs sounds medical.
- Knock-kneed sounds quite old-fashioned.
- Why don't you give us the entire sentence?
- (Are you writing this article on spec or were you assigned it?
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Crooked legs just sounds weird.
Bandy legs sounds medical.
Knock-kneed sounds quite old-fashioned.
Why don't you give us the entire sentence?
(Are you writing this article on spec or were you assigned it? If you were assigned it, their editor will take care of things like this for you.)
Bandy legs sounds medical.
Knock-kneed sounds quite old-fashioned.
Why don't you give us the entire sentence?
(Are you writing this article on spec or were you assigned it? If you were assigned it, their editor will take care of things like this for you.)
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That's for the blog. Actually, I do more of a translating job. I can see all those terms are wrong. That's why I posted. I'm trying to find the other way of conveying the idea that legs that are just slightly bent (inwards/outwards). Is there specific phrase to express the idea? Bent legs? It's not like YOU NEED A SURGERY TO FIX 'EM. It's more about wearing the right clothes to hide some minor di
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changelingThat's for the blog. Actually, I do more of a translating job. I can see all those terms are wrong. That's why I posted. I'm trying to find the other way of conveying the idea that legs that are just slightly bent (inwards/outwards). Is there specific phrase to express the idea? Bent legs? It's not like YOU NEED A SURGERY TO FIX 'EM. It's more about wearing the r
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Hi GG,
Knock-kneed sounds quite old-fashioned.
Oh dear, what should I say, then?
(In the unlikely event that I was foolhardy enough to say anything at all about this.)
Clive
Knock-kneed sounds quite old-fashioned.
Oh dear, what should I say, then?
(In the unlikely event that I was foolhardy enough to say anything at all about this.)
Clive
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