Wed, 04 Mar 1998 22:25:44 -0500
I was reading the responses regarding "a good time with
friends..." and I
thought it was interesting that while all the American responses
seemed to
describe an evening with specific details (it's small, it's loud,
with my
friends), most of the french responses just said "to have
a good time". Is
this because most French parties are relatively similar in style,
that the
make or break for a party is whether you have a good time, or
is it just
that most everyone "knows" (as in it's culturally understood)
what a "good"
party consists of so there isn't much to be said? Or is it that
there are
so many different meaning for "party" or "time
with my friends" in English,
that we feel that we must be really explicit in defining what
me mean?
Nat G