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Juda rule the heart
Dec 19, 2009 10:04
14 yrs ago
English term

something that I'm going in every month

English Art/Literary Other
can you help me with the meaning of "something that I'm going in every month" in this context?!??
thx

"VIP to me means a hundred dollars, a hundred and fifty dollars. Then I have an entrance thatI can walk in and if you're crowded, if we get to the place through this discussion and it's crowded,I can get a seat.
VIP means to me you come up and surprise me and you say, "You and your guest tonight aregoing to have a bottle of our VIP wine." It's not stuff that I'm programmed for, it's stuff that I getsurprised if I bring my family.
VIP to me is, "Hey," to the kids, "Think about this before you order. I've got ice cream andcake for you for dessert," or whatever your thing is, "as a VIP guest." Those kinds of things meansomething to me because get to feel special and appear special to the people I bring with me.
I get to be recognized and acknowledged for the membership. It's not something that I'm going in every month and waiting around to get my dessert or to get my free glass of wine or some-thing. I want you to surprise me and be unique and be impressive"
Responses
4 +1 It's not about my going in every month...
4 +2 somewhere that I go regularly
4 +1 the idea is not that I go in every month and...
3 something I'm doing on a regular basis
3 like to always be treated as a VIP

Discussion

Annett Kottek (X) Dec 19, 2009:
Another agree with Sheila I read it to mean that he's not expecting a VIP treatment each and every time he visits the restaurant (he won't be waiting around for free desert or wine), but that occasionally he would like to receive this treatment. It should come as a surprise to him (which it wouldn't, of course, if it happened on each occasion). As he himself points out, the making-him-feel-important stuff is not something he's 'programmed for', and so it shouldn't be scheduled for him.
Yasutomo Kanazawa Dec 19, 2009:
Agree with Sheila Another poorly written text.
Sheila Wilson Dec 19, 2009:
Missing a "for" It's not something I'm going [to go] in FOR every month". The "to go" is understood and often omitted; IMO the "for" should be there, but then the whole text is not what you'd call "correct" English.

Responses

+1
1 day 2 hrs
Selected

It's not about my going in every month...

This is has been awkwardly translated into English.
This is what I think the writer meant to say:

- It's not about my going every month and waiting around to get a dessert, or a free glass of wine, or anything like that. I want to be surprised by you, feel unique, and be impressed.

Original sentence: It's not something that I'm going in every month and waiting around to get my dessert or to get my free glass of wine or some-thing. I want you to surprise me and be unique and be impressive"
Peer comment(s):
agree Liam Hamilton
1 day 23 hrs
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+2
23 mins

somewhere that I go regularly

If you go to a restaurant every month, you may expect to get special treatment (such as a free dessert or glass of wine). He's saying that he wants to go somewhere occasionally and still be treated as special, as a VIP.
Note from asker:
thank you!
Peer comment(s):
agree Vicky Nash
1 hr
agree Alison Sabedoria (X) : Terrible text! Machine translation perhaps?
2 hrs
neutral Sheila Wilson : but something rather than somewhere?
3 hrs
neutral Tina Vonhof (X) : With Sheila - something he expects every time he goes there. He wants the VIP treatment to be a surprise and would like it to happen particularly when he brings guests, so that he can impress them.
5 hrs
neutral John Detre : I don't think "something" means a place here
5 hrs
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26 mins

something I'm doing on a regular basis

e. g. going there eveery month
Note from asker:
thank you!
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1 hr

like to always be treated as a VIP

without waiting for a glass of wine or dessert. Special treatment requested.

My suggestion.
Note from asker:
thank you!
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+1
6 hrs

the idea is not that I go in every month and...

I think "not something" here means "it's not a situation in which" or "my conception isn't that..." He's just repeating the same idea: that, to him, VIP treatment does not mean that he goes in regularly and gets a predetermined bonus; it means that he is treated as someone special.
Note from asker:
thank you!
Peer comment(s):
agree gabiomelka
1 hr
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