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Gene93 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Will you have your coffee in the car?

Hello,
Could anyone please tell me what's wrong with:
Jack: I feel like having a cup of black coffee.
Sam: Okay. Do you want to sit down and have it here? (They are in a coffee shop and their car is outside)
Jack: No, thanks.
Sam: Will you have it in the car then?
Jack: Yes.

Anyway, even in the absence of context, what's wrong with "Will you have your coffee in the car?" I realize there are other options and I can think of a few, but I don't think this sentence is that bad. I am just using future simple tense.

Thank you Emotion: smile
  

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Gene93 I don't think this sentence is that bad. Nor do I.

— Philip

  • Gene93 I don't think this sentence is that bad.
  • Nor do I.
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Gene93I don't think this sentence is that bad.
Nor do I.
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Thank you, Philip. A person from England nearly lynched me because of that sentence:).
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Gene93Thank you, Philip. A person from England nearly lynched me because of that sentence:).
Oh my ***! I was about to say that the general feeling I got from the phrasing and the logic was that it was perhaps British.
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100% British. I don't know why he reacted this way Emotion: smile.
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Gene93A person from England nearly lynched me because of that sentence:).
Are you sure it was because of the language, and not that they thought it was bad to drink coffee in the car?
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khoffbad to drink coffee in the car
That's illegal in Britain, isn't it? Emotion: thinking

CJ
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CalifJimThat's illegal in Britain, isn't it?
Possibly. But you can drink tea anywhere. I recently learned that British tanks have built-in tea makers. Land Rovers and Bedfords didn't have them, though
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It is not illegal to drink coffee, tea, cocoa, mulled wine, etc in a car in the UK.

A person who drinks anything while actually driving may be committing an offence, but that's a different issue.
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