englishhobby
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- Jun 19, 2009
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- English Teacher
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- Russian
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- Russian Federation
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- Russian Federation
Hello again,
here's a little confusing point. Supposing I am a girl who has a friend (another girl). I am talking to someone and mention this girl in course of the conversation, like this:
I went to London with my girlfriend.
Of course, I can say: I went to London with a friend, a girl. But what if I want to use just one word and I am not going to mention this girl in the convesation anymore? I just want to say that I travelled to London with my friend and that my friend is a girl. The same thing is with "boyfriend" if another boy is talking about his friend. Will it sound a little... strange? ambiguous? Can you only use the words "girlfriend" and "boyfriend" to talk about the person you are dating or also about your friends of the same gender (if you want to mention their gender)? The problem is that in my language (Russian) we have two different words for a female friend of a woman and female friend of a man. The word girlfriend is associated for us only with somebody's date, not just a friend. So, is the sentence I wrote ambiguous if said by a girl? How would you put it differently then? :-?
Thank you in advance.
here's a little confusing point. Supposing I am a girl who has a friend (another girl). I am talking to someone and mention this girl in course of the conversation, like this:
I went to London with my girlfriend.
Of course, I can say: I went to London with a friend, a girl. But what if I want to use just one word and I am not going to mention this girl in the convesation anymore? I just want to say that I travelled to London with my friend and that my friend is a girl. The same thing is with "boyfriend" if another boy is talking about his friend. Will it sound a little... strange? ambiguous? Can you only use the words "girlfriend" and "boyfriend" to talk about the person you are dating or also about your friends of the same gender (if you want to mention their gender)? The problem is that in my language (Russian) we have two different words for a female friend of a woman and female friend of a man. The word girlfriend is associated for us only with somebody's date, not just a friend. So, is the sentence I wrote ambiguous if said by a girl? How would you put it differently then? :-?
Thank you in advance.