rolls on?

[bieasy]

Hi,

Can I say "he rolls on the road" instead of "he drives on the road"?

 

[Raymott]

Hi,

Can I say "he rolls on the road" instead of "he drives on the road"?

No, not in normal English. You could try it and let's know how you get on.

 

[Barb_D]

You might hear something like "Let's roll" for "Let's go" or "Time to get rolling" to mean that it's time to leave, but as a simple declarative sentence, your suggestion would sound very odd indeed.

 

[Rover_KE]

Hi,

Can I say "he rolls on the road" instead of "he drives on the road"?

That sounds like a literal translation of il roule sur la route.

We don't use roll that way, except as Barb suggests.

Rover

 

[bieasy]

That sounds like a literal translation of il roule sur la route.

We don't use roll that way, except as Barb suggests.

Rover

It's because google translator display it, so I was wondering if we could speak that way.

 

[Raymott]

It's because google translator display it, so I was wondering if we could speak that way.

Oh dear. It seems that Rover was right.
No, a machine translation is not an indication that we can say something that we enter in the input field as it appears in the output field and expect speakers of the output language to understand it. Perhaps in 50 years time

 

[bieasy]

Oh dear. It seems that Rover was right.
No, a machine translation is not an indication that we can say something that we enter in the input field as it appears in the output field and expect speakers of the output language to understand it. Perhaps in 50 years time

I know, I know!