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Film Harry Porter Marge is ill. Ate a funny whelk. I don't understand the 2nd phrase. And one more : No one single bloody letter. Could anybody help please.
23 jan. 2015 17:06
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A whelk is a type of seafood, a bit like a snail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whelk It's quite easy to get ill after eating seafood like this, especially if it isn't very fresh. The word 'funny' can have two meanings, either 'amusing' or 'strange'. In this case it means 'strange', in the sense that the whelk probably didn't taste right and it made Marge ill. The word 'bloody' can have two uses. Sometimes it literally means covered in blood, but sometimes (especially in British English) we simply use it to show that we are angry, surprised or frustrated. It's a mild swear word. 'Not one bloody letter' means that that someone hasn't received a single letter. The word 'bloody' just indicates that the speaker is angry. By the way, 'Porter' is an English surname, but this series of books is called Harry Potter, not 'Porter'. A porter is someone who carries things for you, a potter is someone who makes pots.
23 januari 2015
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Ate a funny whelk. A 'whelk' is a kind of seafood. A sea snail. It is 'funny' as in odd, not right. In other words there is something wrong with the food (the whelk) she has eaten and it is making her behave strangely. Not one single bloody letter. 'Bloody' is a form of expletive or swear word. Read the sentence without 'bloody' and insert a swear word from your own language and it should make sense! ;) "Not one single...letter". The person saying this (Ron? Harry?) is disappointed because other people have had letters and they have not.
23 januari 2015
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