Why does she say it the way she does?

[yohosuff]

Hi!

In this dialog extract,

王蜂: 我劝你还是买辆自行车吧, 骑车去用不了半个小时. 有了自行车, 去哪儿都方便.

玛丽: 好, 听你的, 咱们说去就去. 哎, 有了车我一个人去还是不认识路哇.

王蜂: 这好办, 有我呢!

玛丽: 你的意思是...你能和我一块儿去?

王蜂: 当然.

玛丽 wants to go to the zoo. Why does she say 咱们说去就去? Wouldn't she say this after confirming with 王蜂 that he would go with her? I think I don't really understand the meaning of咱们说去就去.

[sebhk]

She refers to buying the bicycle and in this context the meaning is something like "Ok, then lets go and buy it".

By the way, this dialog sounds very familiar. Is this from one of the 初级汉语口语 or 中级汉语口语 books from Peking University?

[andy_kok]

说去就去 means stop talking and begin doing, or when we decide to do someting, and do it right now. For example, 说干就干，means we have decided to do something, so stop talking ,let's move right now

I have a question,why I can't post new thread ? I have activated my account...

[renzhe]

You will get full posting privileges after you post a few posts that aren't spam.

It's a type of a spam filter, everyone goes through it at first.

[yohosuff]

Thanks for the help, but where does 王蜂 say that he'll go with her to get a bike? Does 玛丽 just assume he will go with her to buy it because he suggested buying a bike would be a good idea? I guess what I'm saying is, why does 玛丽 say 说去就去 when 王蜂 hasn't said 去 yet?

By the way, this is from 中级汉语口语-上册

[skylee]

Look at it this way, except the 去 in 咱们说去就去, which means let's go buy a bike, all other 去's in the dialogue refer to going to the zoo.

Wang Feng : I say you should buy a bike. The zoo is less than half an hour by bicycle. With a bike, it is convenient wherever you want to go.

Mary : OK, I'll do what you said. Let's go (buy a bike). Wait, even with a bike I still don't know how to go to the zoo by myself.

Wang Feng: That's simple, here I am.

Mary: You mean you could go (to the zoo) with me?

Wang Feng: Sure.

[yohosuff]

Ok, that clears it up. Thanks skylee.