Topic: use of salt in currys

[Peripatetic Phil]

This site being British based is like having to correspond to my English teacher  ;D ;D

Correspond with, not correspond to.  The two meanings of "correspond" are completely different.  3/10, see me.

[Onions]

[noble ox]

Why is it some recipes and chefs say "Add salt to taste" does that mean you cant taste anything at all without salt, or  does it mean to taste the salt. Add salt to make it salty would make sense very confusing

[Madrasandy]

Add taste with salt and salt to taste the salt then taste the taste of salt added to taste, wheres the confusion Ox?

[Secret Santa]

This site being British based is like having to correspond to my English teacher  ;D ;D

Correspond with, not correspond to.  The two meanings of "correspond" are completely different.  3/10, see me.

It actually works both ways Phil. Correspond to as in compares to means, in this context, that he needs to compare to or match the skills of his English teacher - although the meaning is implicit. How do we manage to stray so far from BIR chat?

[Peripatetic Phil]

Why is it some recipes and chefs say "Add salt to taste" does that mean you cant taste anything at all without salt, or  does it mean to taste the salt. Add salt to make it salty would make sense very confusing

It is short for "to your taste".  In other words, add as much or as little salt as you personally feel appropriate.

** Phil.

[Peripatetic Phil]

It actually works both ways Phil. Correspond to as in compares to means, in this context, that he needs to compare to or match the skills of his English teacher - although the meaning is implicit.

A computer program could arguably be forgiven for believing that "This site being British based is like having to correspond to my English teacher" is good idiomatic English; a sentient human being, on the other hand, should see without any doubt that "correspond with" is what was intended.

** Phil.

[Secret Santa]

It actually works both ways Phil. Correspond to as in compares to means, in this context, that he needs to compare to or match the skills of his English teacher - although the meaning is implicit.

A computer program could arguably be forgiven for believing that "This site being British based is like having to correspond to my English teacher" is good idiomatic English; a sentient human being, on the other hand, should see without any doubt that "correspond with" is what was intended.

** Phil.

It may read awkwardly and be idiomatically strangled...as indeed it appears to me...but that doesn't make it wrong grammatically. As to what the person really intended; perhaps we'll never know (or care).  ;D

[littlechilie]

I like some chips with my salt please ;D

[Onions]

It may read awkwardly and be idiomatically strangled

I think idiogrammatic  would be a good word there.


And, yes, I did miss out a letter