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Thanks, man. You know, when writing, foreigners like me can use the sub-set of English that we feel just about comfortable enough with.
When reading however, we're on our own. I personally look up some stuff, but sometimes just assume.
Some BC members' posts are hard to understand most of the time, whilst other members' posts are normally well-understood.
That's not to say I look down on those whose posts go over my head!
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I know this feeling ; I worked in Austria and Germany a lot and my colleagues rather oblique literary references left me baffled as I didn't have the background to know them, and it's not something you pick up in school
Humbug is said by mr Scrooge in Charles dickens' "a Christmas carol", expressing his dissatisfaction with jollity and Christmas generally