Sorry fella, I dont watch TV(at all)....
so if I mess it up, my ego can stand the embarrassment....
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Kirkley
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 7:46 AM
To: ?? ???t; idm
Subject: Re: [idm] OT----Lingo
on 8/9/01 1:25 PM, ?? ???t at Oways@msn.com wrote:
quoted 12 lines Pardon me list members,> Pardon me list members,
>
> Now I have got this complaint before....
>
> If I use Chap, Bloke, mate.....dodgy or whatever...
> SO WHAT.......I hear every American and his/her in-laws
> trying, real hard, to use African American slang
> in a "cool" way, but I dont never send them
> a message saying, "why are using this term?".....
> (besides, if you could hear yourself U'd stop trying,
> be like Pointek and Mr "intellectual"........)
>
It is funny though when Americans try to use British slang in an American
way. Eg, Hey bloke (Hey dude), incorrect. I guess it's a bit easier to go
the other way though because American TV/Film is so widespread. There's more
to slang than just an interchangeable word. It's a cultural expression. So
if you try to use another culture's slang thinking it's a just a word then
people will giggle when you mess it up. I recommend viewing lots of crappy
English soaps to get the hang of the lingo (eg, Eastenders, Coronation
Street, Brookside, etc). L8r m8.
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