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I kinda feel thisn't about Eastern Europe, its USA vs the rest of the world. The "25 things British Say vs What they mean" meme is pretty similar. https://www.l

• bee_rider 4y ago
  I don't think it is -- the suggestion is that there's a spectrum of positivity, where Americans describe things very excitably and Eastern Europeans tend to be more modest. So we'd both be outside the norm from his point of view (the actual norm if you polled every English speaker would I guess be skewed a bit more in the American direction).
• marstall 4y ago
  strange list - all of those phrases have the same way of functioning in America - cueing a listener to "read between the lines" and flip their meaning.