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Wow, nice! Do you have to pay for the shots or do you get them for free?
Sorry, 'flue' is just my incompetence at using the English language, it seems I also learned that it is 'shot' and not 'shoot'.
I have a super bad German accent when I speak English, and although I hope I have a descent understanding of the language, I couldn't write a sentence with correct spelling/grammar if my life depended on it.
Thanks a lot for chiming in!
No, don't apologize; your command of English is far superior to my grasp of German!
(about all I can say is: "Ich spreche nicht Deutsch" and "Sprechen sie Englisch?" -- and when I put those phrases into Google Translate to check myself, I found that I had the wrong word for 'Englisch' -- I thought it was something like Anglit!)
In the US that's a tricky question because for the most part our insurance will cover it at 100%, so it feels like they are free shots because you can walk into a pharmacy, get a shot, and walk out without having to pay. However, we pay a lot out of each paycheck for that insurance (those of us lucky enough to have a job that offers decent insurance).
I've always gotten them for free, but through health insurance. I believe there are some resources available to help uninsured people to get them for free, but the added hassle often deters people.
No worries about "flue", I understood what you meant, and that's the primary goal of language. There's definitely some other English words with regional spelling variations (grey/gray, tire/tyre, color/colour), and many other confusing, similarly spelled words (lose/loose, bowl/bowel, descent/decent 😉). Have you heard about spelling bees? Spelling vs. pronunciation in English is so inconsistent that it's one of few languages where holding them makes much sense. I bet they'd be pretty silly to hold in German!
Indeed, I have heard of spelling bees, but never thought about the reasons they exist in the US. Thanks for enlightening me! :-)
For what it's worth, a flue is an adjustable opening in a wood stove or similar, Kernspalt in German according to Harper Collins. Now you just have to work the conversation around to the efficient use of a wood stove... 😄
I don't even know the German word, but can confirm, wood stoves are a thing in my neighborhood, as I am reminded every time I open my windows in winter time. ;-)