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Americans make me cry
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post Jul 29 2006, 01:36 PM
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Most of the time, I barely understand your vocabulary. No kidding.

For example; bad ass (is that good or bad). Or Ill. There are so many and sometimes I feel left out. James understands because he lived in the US but I've never been there. I speak plain English.

There's nothing you can do but I find it sad. Why isn't there one type of English? Why is there Australian English, South African English, American English, Canadian English, British English and all those?

I think it's sad.


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I understand those Englishes? But I hardly get you Americans!
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 01:44 PM
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hmm.. word?
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 01:46 PM
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^ SEE WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 01:46 PM
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oooh yeah.
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badass=cool. it's good.
Just for the record, Sandra. laugh.gif

And ill also means cool/awesome. Ex: That's ill! Meaning: That's awesome!
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 01:50 PM
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UNLESS you're like.. yeah, you're so badass in a sarcastic way so then it's like hi you're not cool.
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 01:53 PM
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Aww. Well. AT LEAST YOU CAN SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE. That reminds me - do you have Skype? Should I bother getting it? I WANNA SPEAK TO YOU IN FRENCH.
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 01:54 PM
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I have skype but I don't have speakers. Lmfao!
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 01:56 PM
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sad.gif I DEMAND YOU GET THEM NOW.
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 01:59 PM
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YO IS DA POPO BE OUT BE OUT!
Rofl. Its okay, I don't actually talk like that.

My alternate personality does though!
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:13 PM
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that's what she said
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Yayyyy, urbandictionary.com. ohmy.gif
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:25 PM
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It's not really American English, it's just slang, like in different countries.

For example, Cantonese is hard to learn because it has a LOT of slang like "American English."
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:26 PM
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Skype is cool.
Haha I only understand half of what comes out of my mouth.
Ermfermoo is toe up.
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:28 PM
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www.Urbandictionary.com
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:29 PM
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that's what she said
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QUOTE(No Fear @ Jul 29 2006, 4:28 PM) *
www.Urbandictionary.com

Haha, I did it before you. tongue.gif
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:30 PM
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Wait...since when is ill a slang term? Anyway...Americans make me sad, too. This country is not all it's hyped up to be.
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:31 PM
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that's what she said
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QUOTE(femme_fatale4160 @ Jul 29 2006, 4:30 PM) *
Wait...since when is ill a slang term?

Some people use ill as a slang term for cool.
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:39 PM
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LMFAO. Ahah.

I know what you're talking about with the 'badass' stuff. Well, I pretty much don't get it when people use 'bad' or 'sick' or 'wicked' as a positive adjective.

And which is correct if you're trying ? "You don't know shit about politics" or "You know shit about politics". Because the former would be a compliment and the latter would be an insult, but ordinarily it's the other way around.

And I absolutely hate the phrase "I could care less" when they're trying to express that they don't care. That doesn't make sense. It would be "I couldn't care less" because nothing is more uninteresting than what this person is saying.
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:46 PM
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kathleen, if you get skype you can talk to me in english.

it'll be like an experiment with different types of englishes!
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:52 PM
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QUOTE(lol lollipops @ Jul 29 2006, 4:31 PM) *
Some people use ill as a slang term for cool.


Well I know that now.
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:56 PM
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hahaha. don't worry, i get confused about that stuff too. i didn't know what badass meant. XD.gif
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:58 PM
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I know, man.. I remember when I first came to Canada. Well, here it's considered American English.. But the little English I had studied was British English.

So one girl asked me where I lived, and I was just like, "Oh in a flat in the red building".. hahaha..
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 03:59 PM
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Where are you originally from, Angelina?
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 04:06 PM
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A really small country in Europe called Bulgaria :) It's next to Greece, Turkey and Romania..
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 04:25 PM
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QUOTE(Angelina Taylor @ Jul 29 2006, 5:06 PM) *
A really small country in Europe called Bulgaria :) It's next to Greece, Turkey and Romania..

ohmygosh I know a girl that came from there lol
that's super cool

I don't understand british english...but I've always wanted to call someone a wanker lmao
 
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post Jul 29 2006, 05:10 PM
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I have a hard time understanding american slang and i am from here XD.gif
 
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