[davidmanze]

A show of hands, please.


How many people here have used palaver in the past, say 30 years?

http://fr.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Palava

 

   

 

   As with many things , you haven't heard the expression, then you do with amused surprise.

 

 The same in French, when you haven't  grown up in a country, you can go fifteen years without ever hearing a common expression, after twenty three years of speaking french, I still hear "common" expressions that I've never heard/perceived before!

  I've just checked with an English girlfriend (now), I asked the question; "Do we still want to go out , or is it too much of a palarva?"  

 "No let's go out"  she said!

 

 So off we go!