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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Hi everyone, does this sentence sound correct in English?
She threw the milk carton on the sticky counter in the opposite direction to mine.
She threw the milk carton on the sticky counter in the opposite direction to mine.
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Hello everyone! I would like to check whether the following sentences sound correct in English: 1. The saleswoman threw the milk carton on the sticky counter in the opposite direction to mine.
- Hello everyone!
- I would like to check whether the following sentences sound correct in English: 1.
- The saleswoman threw the milk carton on the sticky counter in the opposite direction to mine.
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- Her blue eyes were heavily made up with light-blue mascara and pencil and her thin lips covered with pale pink lipstick that treacherously crept into the furrows of her first wrinkles.
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Hello everyone!
I would like to check whether the following sentences sound correct in English:
1. The saleswoman threw the milk carton on the sticky counter in the opposite direction to mine.
2.. Her blue eyes were heavily made up with light-blue mascara and pencil and her thin lips covered with pale pink lipstick that treacherously crept into the furrows of her first wrinkles.
I would like to check whether the following sentences sound correct in English:
1. The saleswoman threw the milk carton on the sticky counter in the opposite direction to mine.
2.. Her blue eyes were heavily made up with light-blue mascara and pencil and her thin lips covered with pale pink lipstick that treacherously crept into the furrows of her first wrinkles.
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Yole1. The saleswoman threw the milk carton on the sticky counter in the opposite direction to mine.No.
Yole2.. Her blue eyes were heavily made up with light-blue mascara and pencil and her thin lips covered with pale pink lipstick that treacherously crept into the furrows of her first wrinkles.OK.
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AlpheccaStars is it correct to say: The saleswoman threw the milk carton on the sticky counter in the opposite direction from me?
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Yes.
But it is hard to imagine what you mean though.
If someone throws something ON a counter, they throw it in a down direction and it lands on the counter top. That puts your position as suspended from the ceiling above the counter. Very strange, indeed.
But it is hard to imagine what you mean though.
If someone throws something ON a counter, they throw it in a down direction and it lands on the counter top. That puts your position as suspended from the ceiling above the counter. Very strange, indeed.
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Thank you AlpheccaSatrs, you are right. I'll give you some context. These is a scene taking place in a shop in the former Soviet Union. Saleswomen were very rude and they didn't even look at the customers in their eyes. They were sitting behind a counter and to buy something you had to ask them to pass it to you. So one of them "Threw the milk carton on the sticky counter not towards me, but in
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You are on one side of a counter, and the saleslady is on the other side, facing you. If she throws the carton in the direction from you, she throws it backwards — away from her, away from the counter, and away from you.
In this picture, the man would throw the box toward the back wall.
In this picture, the man would throw the box toward the back wall.
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AlpheccaStarsYou are on one side of a counter, and the saleslady is on the other side, facing you. If she throws the carton in the direction from you, she throws it backwards — away from her, away from the counter, and away from you. In this picture, the man would throw the box toward the back wall.I think that there is a behavioral gap (between the western c
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AnonymousI think that there is a behavioral gap (between the western customer-salesmen relation and the Soviet one)I suppose the gap is the different practice of "customer service"!
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