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Typing with long nails is like walking whilst wearing pumps. Practice makes perfect.


What do you mean by "pumps". Where I'm from in the UK it means very basic trainers (USA: sneakers), like plimsolls. Something like a Converse Allstar, say.

I've got to assume from the context you mean 'high-heeled shoes'?


Where I live indeed naaldhakken are called pumps as well. I hence, maybe uncorrectly, assumed it is an English word... Flemish/Dutch is so full of English words.

We use words like sneakers, shorts, wonderbra, jeans, hoodie,... often there is no Dutch alternative even.


Must be a regional or class dialect thing? You've never heard the Amy Winehouse song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVaqQe3V498




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