restaurant fluent

Knowing enough of a language to be able to order at a restaurant, but not much else.
I can barely speak Chinese, I like to say I'm restaurant fluent though so if we go to Panda Express we're all set.
by phrmashwrma February 22, 2024
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Fluent

the ability to communicate in a language - such that anyone who can speak that language, can converse with you without the need for a translator

An automation platform from Tecan, where absolutely no-one can explain how it works or why it continuously fails to perform the tasks it was programmed for - Rosetta Stone writes books to help people learn and become "Fluent" in other languages (maybe Rosetta should write a book to help people become Fluent in Tecan's Fluent, maybe even helping Tecan to gain fluency in their Fluent platform )!
Fluent ? my laboratory owns a Fluent - and never before have I seen such a lack of fluency by "the experts from Tecan"

Tecan ... Fluent in $300,000 paper weights !
by TecanMolbank January 22, 2020
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Fluent

A word used, primarily in the north of England and Scotland, to describe a man with stereotypically homosexual tendencies and style.
‘Why haven’t you got a lass yet bro’
Shup geezer, you know I’m fluent
by Languagelord69 May 14, 2020
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