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James Silverton[_2_] · **(2009-04-09) NS-RFC: You receive an invitation to a dinner party....**

wrote on Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:35:45 -0700
(PDT):

> On Apr 9, 12:08 pm, "James Silverton" >
> wrote:
>> ChattyCathy wrote on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:59:42 +0200:
>>
> >>> I've not ever been invited to a dinner party that I wasn't
> >>> informed there would be an hour or so for mingling and
> >>> cocktails before being seated for dinner. I know I would
> >>> never give invitations specifing arrive at 7 PM to fress.
> >> 'fress'. Had to google that. I'd guess that Dave's Big
> >> Niece wouldn't have to look it up, though... hehe
>>
>> Have you ever seen the invitations that say something like
>> "7:30 for 8" to indicate the mingling and that you won't eat
>> before 8?
>>
>> Incidentally, could some German speaker tell me what the
>> difference is between "essen" and "fressen"? I believe
>> fressen in intransitive and essen transitive but why bother
>> with the two words?
>>

Thanks, my German is very basic outside reading science but, now that
you mention it, I seem to remember something about not using "fressen"
for people. My dictionaries just gave the meaning "eat" for both words.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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