Help me!
For Native English Speakers.
I have questions for writing my thesis.🙇🏻‍♀️

Please read the passage below and imagine this situation.

【You are a university student. You were not feeling well yesterday and missed a lecture at your university.
So, you want to borrow a notebook from someone who is taking the same lecture.】

How do you say when you make a request to a person 1-4?
Please describe in spoken English.

1. a close senior student, two years old than you

2. a close friend who is in the same grade and the same age as you

3. a senior student, two years old than you (Your relationship with him/her is extent to greeting each other.)

4. a friend who is in the same grade and the same age as you (Your relationship with him/her is extent to greeting each other.)

Your cooperation would be appreciated!🥲

Question

Help me! 
For Native English Speakers.
I have questions for writing my thesis.🙇🏻‍♀️

Please read the passage below and imagine this situation.

【You are a university student. You were not feeling well yesterday and missed a lecture at your university.
So, you want to borrow a notebook from someone who is taking the same lecture.】

How do you say when you make a request to a person 1-4? 
Please describe in spoken English.

1. a close senior student, two years old than you

2. a close friend who is in the same grade and the same age as you

3. a senior student, two years old than you (Your relationship with him/her is extent to greeting each other.)

4. a friend who is in the same grade and the same age as you (Your relationship with him/her is extent to greeting each other.)

Your cooperation would be appreciated!🥲

monochromacolor · Answer

Crib!! I’ve never heard that one, ever. Where are you from @dongelev85 ? Not to bash you, I’m just very curious, haha.

1: Hey, sorry, I was absent for the last lecture, *would mind if I could see your notes? Or, *would you mind if I borrowed your notes?

2: hey man, do you mind if I borrow your notes? I missed the last lecture. Or, hey, could I see the notes from last lecture?

3/4: Hi, I’m sorry, but I missed the last lecture. *Could I maybe borrow your notes? Or, *would you mind if I borrowed your notes please? Sorry..
(Or I might just not, this would make me very nervous. Several times in college I just went without if I wasn’t very familiar with someone)

In my college, it was interdisciplinary, so often times my classes had a mixture of 2nd 3rd and 4th years, /maybe/ a very lucky freshman.  A couple year age gap was no big deal at all, the main divider in class was usually friend groups, or nationality. The foreign transfer students would tend to stick to each other, so even if I was two years older it was very difficult to approach them. There were some 5-10+ year older people who entered to college later in life, although strangely they were easier to approach than most. This was probably because they knew they were the outlier usually and were more social because of it. Also probably because they were just more mature than us young college kids.

monochromacolor · Answer

@dongelev85 huh! I’m from Wisconsin, but studied in Chicago. I guess it must not have made it here to the Midwest, haha! Certainly fits the circumstance though

dongelev85 · Answer

1 and 2: Hey, can I crib from your notes?
3 and 4: May I see your notes from the last lecture?

Age differences are mostly irrelevant among students in the US, especially at the university level when students of different years often take the same classes and students in the same year are often different ages.

dongelev85 · Answer

@monochromacolor I'm from Pennsylvania.

"To crib from someone" means to plagiarize from them or cheat on a test by looking at their answers, so it is a somewhat self-effacing way to describe copying a friend's notes.

dongelev85 · Answer

@monochromacolor I looked up where it came from. Apparently it comes from old English criminal slang for stealing or poaching something and hiding it in a basket (crib.)

BabyIon · Answer

I don’t know if you need this still, but here’s my answers (I’m from the South for dialect information)

1-2. Hey, can I borrow your notes, I was sick last class

3-4. Do you mind if I borrow your notes? I wasn’t feeling well so I couldn’t come to class yesterday.

アメリカで先輩と後輩の上下関係を重要じゃないです。

私はそれを正しく言ったことを願っています。訂正してください

@monochromacolor I'm from Pennsylvania."To crib from someone" means to plagiarize from them or cheat on a test by looking at their answers, so it is a somewhat self-effacing way to describe copying a friend's notes.

@dongelev85 huh! I’m from Wisconsin, but studied in Chicago. I guess it must not have made it here to the Midwest, haha! Certainly fits the circumstance though

@monochromacolor I looked up where it came from. Apparently it comes from old English criminal slang for stealing or poaching something and hiding it in a basket (crib.)

@monochromacolor I'm from Pennsylvania.

"To crib from someone" means to plagiarize from them or cheat on a test by looking at their answers, so it is a somewhat self-effacing way to describe copying a friend's notes.