Comments on: Expat Confusion: Are We Speaking English? https://www.lifeintheexpatlane.com/expat-confusion-are-we-speaking-english/ Expat Stories of Foreign Fun Living in Exotic Places Sun, 06 Jul 2025 12:10:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: YTSL https://www.lifeintheexpatlane.com/expat-confusion-are-we-speaking-english/#comment-2311 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:53:06 +0000 https://lifeintheexpatlane.com/?p=806#comment-2311 From Hong Kong: “you are so poor” doesn’t just mean that you are financially not well off but, rather, is meant to be an expression akin to the more conventionally English “poor you” (loosely translated, “oh dear, I feel so sorry (for you)”)! 😀

From Malaysia: Can you “on” the air-con and “off” the fan? (Rather than “switch on” and “switch off” respectively).

Also from Malaysia: In e-mails, “Please revert” = “please reply”.

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