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Originally Posted by Columbine
"They meant it was hard work" is slightly ambiguous. "hard work" usually means tiring activity. Climbing a mountain is hard work. Being a farmer is hard work. However, i'm not sure if you mean 'hard' here as 'difficult' though. 'Difficult' work can be a job that is unlikeable or unpleasant to do, is complicated or involves a lot of risk. Being a doctor is difficult work, being a bomb expert is difficult work.
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Hi, Columbine.
My father used to say that cutting corpse heads in two is tiring activity.
I should have written this.
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I could have put 'no' instead of 'without', but 'without' fits more with the formal language of describing work status.
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I see.
Thank you.
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Originally Posted by Columbine
I would add that it's not common to buy rounds in a restaurant. This is the kind of thing you do in a bar or a pub, not when you're sitting down for a meal. Even if you have a meal in a pub you might pay for rounds before, then eat, pay the bill for the food and drinks consumed at the meal and then possibly go back to buying rounds after the meal. Or you will simply put everything on one 'tab' or bill and one person will pay, or you will split the bill/
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I think you pay money when you get drinks, while we pay when we leave the bar or the pub in Japan.
Maybe, it’s easier to buy rounds to you than we.