prairie friendly

English translation: Friendly in the hospitable manner one would expect in Prairie country

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English term or phrase:	prairie friendly
Selected answer:	Friendly in the hospitable manner one would expect in Prairie country
Entered by:	Andrea Re

21:27 Oct 8, 2007

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tourism & Travel

English term or phrase: prairie friendly

"The food was excellent and the service attentive and prairie friendly."

We are in an Edmonton Hotel. What on earth does the expression mean????
(Anything to do with the Ingalls?)

Andrea Re KudoZ activity Questions: 497 (none open) (38 closed without grading) Answers: 749 United Kingdom
Local time: 18:48

Friendly in the hospitable manner one would expect in Prairie country

Explanation:
No, I think it really is "prairie-friendly", Edmonton being in or near the prairies.

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Selected response from:

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:48

Grading comment

Thanks. That is my new expression for the day (unlikely I will be able to use it, though....:)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

3 +10

Friendly in the hospitable manner one would expect in Prairie country

Jack Doughty

fairly friendly

Mark Nathan

Answers

3 mins confidence:

fairly friendly

Explanation:
typo?

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Note added at 21 mins (2007-10-08 21:48:45 GMT)
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yes, "very friendly" would be more likely.

Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 19:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 16

Notes to answerer

Asker: I had thought of "very friendly".... wonders of words spellchecker?

42 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +10

Friendly in the hospitable manner one would expect in Prairie country

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:48
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 72

Grading comment

Thanks. That is my new expression for the day (unlikely I will be able to use it, though....:)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Kim Metzger: Some good ol' prairie hospitality.

40 mins

-> Thank you.

agree

orientalhorizon: the service was attentive and prairie friendly, showing the hospitality of prairie style and also doing good to the prairie.

3 hrs

-> Thank you.

agree

Alp Berker: emphasis on rural hospitality of the prairie to visitors

3 hrs

-> Thank you.

agree

Deborah Workman: Yes. A couple of your citations are for the environmental meaning of "prairie-friendly", but I agree with your argument that the meaning here is "in keeping with the friendliness of prairie hospitality".

5 hrs

-> Thank you.

agree

Patricia Townshend (X)

7 hrs

-> Thank you.

agree

kmtext

9 hrs

-> Thank you.

agree

Noni Gilbert Riley

10 hrs

-> Thank you.

agree

Ken Cox: absolutely -- prairie as in 'prairie culture' (the culture of prairie people)

11 hrs

-> Thank you. Yes.

agree

NancyLynn: prairie country hospitality - rural, rustic, as opposed to urban and snobbish. Nothing to do wwith environment here. Edmonton is smack-dab in the middle of the Canadian Prairies.

14 hrs

-> Thank you.

agree

CHEN-Ling

1 day 19 hrs

-> Thank you.

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