When it comes to lunch time, what should I say to the people around me to ask them to have lunch together:
"Let's go to lunch" or "Let's go for lunch"?
My first thought is the former.
But I also see some using the latter. Is the latter right too? Or grammtically right but not very usually used?
either works for me, though it's breakfast time for me. :¬ )
I have heard, and use both, probably fairly equally.
And this matters, why? Either. Anything but "let's do lunch" sounds fine to me.
Kevin Kline (Otto) smiling to angel fish called Wanda : "Hello lunch".
One may also catch or grab a bite
To me let's go to lunch feels more formal and implies that the food is prepared and waiting. For lunch is looser, merely meaning that it is the middle of the day and I want food whether I plan to buy it, make it or open my lunch box.
I'd say "go to lunch" implied that the whole group was going out to eat lunch. "Go for lunch" would also have the possibility that one person was going to go out and pick up lunch, bringing it back for everyone to eat.
Other possibilities would include "let's have lunch" or "time for lunch" or just "lunchtime!"
My colleagues and I would usually go to lunch together. Sometimes we would eat in, and one of us would go for lunch. Other times we would all bring our lunch from home. On those occasions we would sit around the conference table and discuss what we were having for lunch. On particularly harrowing days, lunchtime would arrive not a moment too soon, and someone would announce "Lunch" at the stroke of noon leading to a race for the door. Maybe they thought we said "Lunge!"
As Steffani implies, at work, I can use the word "lunch" to mean either the midday break time or a meal or both. "To lunch", IMO, implies taking the break with the possibility of having the meal while "for lunch" implies having the meal. To take the break for the reason of a meal, perhaps?
In other words, if I say "I'm going to lunch now", you should not assume that I've eaten when I get back, but if I say "I'm going for lunch", you know that food is my purpose.
If you want people to eat with you, whether you all have your food or are going out somewhere, I would just say "Let's go eat lunch", and not worry about the "to" or "for" part. If you are definitely going out, you could use "Let's go get lunch", and if the food is already present and accounted for, "Let's eat!" works just fine. :0)
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callit to lunch today.
"Let's go to lunch" or "Let's go for lunch"?
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let's do lunch"Ack, no!
(dimissed by its author)"Hello lunch".
catch or grab a bite
"go to lunch"
"let's have lunch"
"time for lunch"
"Lunch","Lunge!"
"Let's go eat lunch",
"Let's go get lunch",
"Let's eat!"
"Hm, lunch?"
"What about lunch today?"
Lisp nerds might pose the question: (lunch-p). (There are functions called predicates in Lisp which traditionally have a p appended to the function name, e.g., list returns a list, but listp returns T or NIL.) Scheme uses a question mark.
Lisp nerds might pose the question: (lunch-p).
Can they really do it with only two parentheses?
Old Joke:
Provacator:What is the difference between a great tuna salad sandwich and great sex?
Naif: (i dunno... what?)
P: Let's DO Lunch...
Ah, I remember DOING LUNCH!
luncheon
1580, nonechenche "light mid-day meal," from none "noon" + schench "drink," from O.E. scenc, from scencan "pour out." Altered by northern Eng. dial. lunch "hunk of bread or cheese" (1590), which probably is from Sp. lonja "a slice," lit. "loin." When it first appeared, luncheon meant "thick piece, hunk;" sense of "light repast between mealtimes" is from 1652, esp. in ref. to an early afternoon meal eaten by those who have a noontime dinner. Type of restaurant called a luncheonette is attested from 1924, Amer.Eng. Slang phrase out to lunch "insane, stupid, clueless" first recorded 1955, on notion of being "not there."
Sliced luncheon sausage is a common ingredient in kids lunches
down these parts.
Hey are you trying for zmjezhd's position of chief etymologist??
Btw, wasnn't that a great try in the League Test the other day? Poor NZers - a valiant effort but no match for Aussie superiority!
Not that it bothers me much, but this one and that one are totally incomprehensible to me. I must be naif and/or a foreigner.
> Lisp nerds might pose the question: (lunch-p). (There are functions called predicates in Lisp which traditionally have a p appended to the function name, e.g., list returns a list, but listp returns T or NIL.) Scheme uses a question mark.
> Old Joke:
Provacator:What is the difference between a great tuna salad sandwich and great sex?
Naif: (i dunno... what?)
P: Let's DO Lunch...
Ah, I remember DOING LUNCH!
>Not that it bothers me much, but this one and that one are totally incomprehensible to me. I must be naif and/or a foreigner.
it's not necessarily either (or both) of those things, Bran.
Thank you guys for the help!
By the way, can anyone explain the "do lunch" joke to me?
Does it regard the pun of "do it at lunch time" and "do the act of eating lunch"?
Yes, I've been informed it's something like that, but I did not see that either.
To me the joke poses still another problem for understanding.
If one should ask me " What is the difference between 'a great tuna salad sandwich' and 'great sex', I would say: " None ".
I see no difference between 'great ' and 'great ', but that's a personal point of vieuw. I'm as bad at understanding jokes as I'm at mathematics, (most of the time)
He is telling you to come for food but intends to have sex. After all you won't know the difference.
Know idea what the lisp thing is.
Know idea what the lisp thing is.
Know or not no ?(
she lispeled faintly)
Lisp is a programming language. It stands for [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)LISt Processing language[/url]. The joke backronym was Lots of Insignificant Single Parens because at least the old versions of the language tended to have lots of parentheses in a small amount of program.
Lisp is a programming language.Not just
any programming language, but, one of the oldest and—IMNSHO—best ones.
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp (
link).
One of the cool things about Lisp is that there is no formal difference between its data structure, the list, and a program. It is quite easy to write programs that write programs, etc.
One of the cool things about Lisp is that there is no formal difference between its data structure, the list, and a program. It is quite easy to write programs that write programs, etc.
Hence, its use as an AI (no, not American Idol) progamming language.
I'm interted in programming too. The languages I'm using are java-like ones, such as C#. never tried lisp.
Sounds it's a good one. I'll try to learn about it...