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Robsee Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
I read you
Hello there,
can someone explain me the following two sentences:
1) I read you (must have to do with understanding something)
2) I like your speak - (I wonder because of the word "speak" instead of "voice or speech")
Thanks
Robert
can someone explain me the following two sentences:
1) I read you (must have to do with understanding something)
2) I like your speak - (I wonder because of the word "speak" instead of "voice or speech")
Thanks
Robert
Top answer
--------- to read h (1) : to receive (a message) over a communication system (2) : to be able to understand (as a transmitted message) <read you loud and clear> ----- speak chiefly Scotland : SPEECH, TALK --------- but I am not sure if we're dealing here with the Scottish meaning.
- --------- to read h (1) : to receive (a message) over a communication system (2) : to be able to understand (as a transmitted message) <read you loud and clear> ----- speak chiefly Scotland : SPEECH, TALK --------- but I am not sure if we're dealing here with the Scottish meaning.
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to read
h (1) : to receive (a message) over a communication system (2) : to be
able to understand (as a transmitted message) <read you loud and
clear>
-----
speak
chiefly Scotland : SPEECH, TALK
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but I am not sure if we're dealing here with the Scottish meaning.
to read
h (1) : to receive (a message) over a communication system (2) : to be
able to understand (as a transmitted message) <read you loud and
clear>
-----
speak
chiefly Scotland : SPEECH, TALK
---------
but I am not sure if we're dealing here with the Scottish meaning.
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1) I'd agree with Marius: over a walkie-talkie, for instance, you say "Do you read me?" to mean "Can you hear me?". The standard reply is "Yes, I read you".
2) This looks like a case of nouning a verb for effect. Maybe it's one-off street slang. But there is a precedent: in his novel "1984", Orwell coined the noun "Newspeak", i.e. new + speak.
MrP
2) This looks like a case of nouning a verb for effect. Maybe it's one-off street slang. But there is a precedent: in his novel "1984", Orwell coined the noun "Newspeak", i.e. new + speak.
MrP
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Hi,
'I read you' can mean 'I understand your unstated or indirectly stated meaning'. It can be used in a face-to-face encounter. Dialogue from a second-rate movie:
A: The prisoner will slow us up, but I can't just shoot him, can I?
B: (smiles)
A: I read you.
Be
'I read you' can mean 'I understand your unstated or indirectly stated meaning'. It can be used in a face-to-face encounter. Dialogue from a second-rate movie:
A: The prisoner will slow us up, but I can't just shoot him, can I?
B: (smiles)
A: I read you.
Be
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