Subj : A joke. Is it understandable in English? To : Ardith Hinton From : Alexander Koryagin Date : Tue Jun 21 2022 09:20:12 Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Anton Shepelev I read your message from 17.06.2022 01:48 AH> Alexander's wording leaves the time frame more open to question. AH> Because he's telling a joke, I imagine this is probably the effect AH> he wanted. AH> Charles M. Schulz used a similar strategy in a 1989 PEANUTS AH> cartoon: AH> Linus: I hear your grandfather has taken up golf. AH> Charlie: He's been playing for about a year.. AH> Lucy: That's a long time to be out on the course.. ;-) AS>> 140 grams is my daily portion. AH> In wet or dry measurements? If you mean the former, that's about AH> the same amount I usually drink in a day... but (as with my AH> briefcase) I don't lift it & put it down just once. The preparation AH> alone involves a bit of lifting... I take my time over anything AH> containing alcohol or caffeine... and on occasions when I have a AH> second cup within 24 hours I'll drink a smaller amount. AH> As a teacher I worked with someone from the Netherlands who AH> obviously preferred stronger coffee. When it was her turn to make AH> coffee, I would dilute it 50/50 with boiling water before drinking AH> it. I've heard the same applies in other European countries but AH> don't know what the average Russian would do. :-) The size of a coffee cap in Russia depends on what you are going to eat with your coffee. ;) AS>> I buy freshly roasted coffee beens, grind them myself immediately AS>> before brewing, and make my coffee in an electronically-contolled AS>> jezwe. AH> My mother used a coffee percolator, which works with a campfire or AH> an oil/wood/electric/gas stove or whatever other source of heat is AH> available. I'm not sure what a "jezwe" is. But nowadays I generally AH> prefer the Melitta filter system, which requires little of me AH> except to add a cup of boiling water to the pre-ground beans & wait AH> 60 seconds when I'm making coffee just for myself. :-) I tried several times to make coffee from ground roasted coffee beans, but could not make anything worth with my cezve. Have you seen a video in the Internet how to prepare a really good coffee? Bye, Ardith! Alexander Koryagin english_tutor 2022 --- * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0) .