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To me, the biggest problem with the sentence is "lock, stock, and barrel," which won't be understandable to a number of non-native speakers. I don't know who t
by BossingAround 4y ago
To me, the biggest problem with the sentence is "lock, stock, and barrel," which won't be understandable to a number of non-native speakers.
I don't know who the target audience is, but not having non-native speakers in mind seems like a pretty big oversight to me.
Mainland Asia is, of course, pretty bad as well.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoI don’t think I’ve ever heard the expression outside of the title of that one movie.
- solarmist 4y agoI've heard and even used it a couple of times, but it's not very common anymore.
- hurflmurfl 4y agoAs a non-native speaker, I don't think I've ever seen this expression, but one can easily guess what it means. Enumerating bits of the whole as a way to emphasize the wholeness, I think, might be common in many languages. Regarding mainland Asia, I just understand it as "not island" Asia.