What are you on about? - engelsk example sentence

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FeuDRenais 4. september 2010 4. september 2010 kl. 10.56.47 UTC

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Can someone check the Japanese here?

The Chinese just says "what are you doing?"

blay_paul 4. september 2010 4. september 2010 kl. 11.16.15 UTC

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> The Chinese just says "what are you doing?"

That's what "What are you about?" means.

FeuDRenais 4. september 2010 4. september 2010 kl. 11.33.53 UTC

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Not to me, at least.

"What are you about?" generally means "what do you like to do?" or "what things are you interested in?"

British tag?

blay_paul 4. september 2010 4. september 2010 kl. 11.47.34 UTC

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Better not. It may be an idiolect or minority usage.

FeuDRenais 4. september 2010 4. september 2010 kl. 11.55.13 UTC

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K. I tagged it as "ambiguous".

Horus 18. juli 2024 18. juli 2024 kl. 02.02.05 UTC

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