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LanguageLover Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Go fish!

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00I found this expression regarding a guessing game. 02br
00A: Do you have an animal with tusks? 02br
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00B: Yes, I do. (No, I don't. Go fish.) 02br
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00A: Is it a walrus? 02br
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00B: Yes, it is. (No, it isn't. Go fish.) 02br
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00Don't tell me that it means to try the fish cards! So, does it mean to guess something else? 02br
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Top answer

0 Maybe it means "go fish another guess/answer" in your own pool of answers/guesses? 0-

— Pieanne

  • 0 Maybe it means "go fish another guess/answer" in your own pool of answers/guesses?
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0 Maybe it means "go fish another guess/answer" in your own pool of answers/guesses? 0-
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0 Thanks Pieanne, I think that's the case. 0-
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0 Hi again, 02br
00Now I'm sure that fish means to find, search, guess,... 02br
00There is a website with the address of "singingfish.com", where you can search the web for your favorite audio and video files, and the button for "go/search" is also named "fish it"! 0-
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0 There is a children's card game called "Go Fish" in which the object is to lay down all your cards in pairs. Suppose you have one walrus, and you want to get another one. You ask the other player," Do you have a walrus?" If he does, he gives it to you and you lay the pair of walruses on the table. That's good, because now you have fewer cards in your hand. If he has no walrus, he says,
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0 Thanks Khoff for your detailed explanation. It helped me a lot, and it was interesting. Yes, you'll see lots of similar questions in the future! As you've already guesse, I'm teaching English to the kids, and there are many things that I do not know! So, I'm teaching and learning English! Thanks again, 02br
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0 Glad to be of help. Which kids are you teaching English to - your own, or in a classroom? Where are you, and what's your native language? Just curious. -- khoff 0-
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0 Hi Khoff, thanks fot asking. My native language is Persian, though I live in the United Arab Emirates right now. There are lots of Iranians who decided to reside here for a variety of reasons. I teach English in an Iranian nursery, with the kids ranging from 3 to 5. (However I was asked just recently to spend some time each session with the younger ones, some of them haven't started talking ye
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0 Is Persian the same as Farsi? I learned about two words of that once - I think "book" was "ketab"? For thepast few years I have volunteered in an ESL program at a local library. Most of the students are elderly Russian immigrants, but occasionally an Iranian or an Ethiopioan or, more commonly, various Spanish-speakers will turn up. I got involved with the program becasue I speak some Russi
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0 Hi Khoff, thanks for the reply. Yes, Persian is the same as Farsi, just its English name is Persian, and Farsi is the dialect spoken in Iran (in contrast to Farsi Dari in Afganistan and Farsi Tajiki in Tajikestan). And "ketab" is right, and the word for "hello" is "salam". (Though both of the words have Arabic origins! You're right again about the Indo-Euroupian origin, however, we borrowed a
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