Subj : Re: And/From...  1.
To   : Ardith Hinton
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Sat Mar 03 2018 08:24:55

 AH> relate to what I'm trying to say).  I learned to talk one way at
 AH> school & another way at home.  I didn't like it when I had to go home
 AH> before everybody else did & they weren't available for some time after
 AH> I had finished eating.  OTOH, when I was expected to teach
 AH> PYGMALION/MY FAIR LADY I found it right up my alley....  :-)

 RW>>  Cool. I'm always up for another session of English 101.

 AH>             Glad to hear it!  You ask, I'll answer... or at least try
 AH> to.  :-)

 RW>>  (I hope the Russians know what 'cool' means in American
 RW>>  colloquial English)

 AH>             The younger ones certainly do... and I think the others
 AH> will catch on quickly, if they haven't already.  With 300,000,000+
 AH> people & a flourishing trade in books, movies, etc. the US takes up a
 AH> lot of bandwidth nowadays.  :-)


Besides, "cool" has some relation to a Russian idiom.
You say "He looks cool." In reality "cool" came from the idiom "cool as a 
cucumber."
In Russia we say, "He looks like a (nice) cucumber." And we probably also don't 
know the origin. ;-)

Best regards - alexander
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