Wiki Article: It's been awhile since I did not bloggué.Je do not really have time to write long articles when I have to read up to 200 pages per week and write one or two tests 5 to 7 pages a week.
Today I wanted to provide a glossary of terms most recurrent Newspeak American student, a kind of survival kit for the first few days in an American university.
Principle: Wiki article, I begin with my examples and you can add your own comments expressions. Not need to register to contribute and moderate anonymous comments allowed. In your proposals!
Today I wanted to provide a glossary of terms most recurrent Newspeak American student, a kind of survival kit for the first few days in an American university.
Principle: Wiki article, I begin with my examples and you can add your own comments expressions. Not need to register to contribute and moderate anonymous comments allowed. In your proposals!
Asshole, asshole : used much more than translation French literally means exactly asshole. Very useful
Awesome, awesome : essential, used in all situations even if there is nothing extraordinary, example: "-I come back from class-Awesome!"
Awesome, awesome : essential, used in all situations even if there is nothing extraordinary, example: "-I come back from class-Awesome!"
Basically, at the base, in fact: to cram in the beginning of each sentence in the place of good French euuuh ... Basically the also allows our American friend to tell a very weak generality by covering a sort of disclaimer: I'll make it simple attention. In general, this is how I start my general on U.S. or explain something complicated. I'm going there, and at that moment t student Basically its just used to talk about his favorite topic to the class, his BlackBerry.
Blackberry : Imagine yourself a student (normal) in France permanently connected with these emails? Here, it is quite common. The phone is the size of cars, huge. Like Gossip Girl, girls spend a lot of their day on their Blackberries on the instant messaging service, often going between two audit quality nails. In most of Scourie, students doing the same thing as me at that moment, they write emails, blogs, chat or make a quick crossword puzzle online.
Bummer!: I found this expression of my evenings at Halo with the people of the coop. Basically, this idiom gives a little diversity to the traditional shit! or fuck!.
Blackberry : Imagine yourself a student (normal) in France permanently connected with these emails? Here, it is quite common. The phone is the size of cars, huge. Like Gossip Girl, girls spend a lot of their day on their Blackberries on the instant messaging service, often going between two audit quality nails. In most of Scourie, students doing the same thing as me at that moment, they write emails, blogs, chat or make a quick crossword puzzle online.
Bummer!: I found this expression of my evenings at Halo with the people of the coop. Basically, this idiom gives a little diversity to the traditional shit! or fuck!.
Creepy: may serve as creepy horror film of the same name, but it often replaces awkward in the sense of a situation that makes people uncomfortable. The U.S. use it all the time. For example, if you use the next word in its French meaning, "Where Can I take a shower?" in your worst English, she answered with a look half-disgusted, half-scared, "That's so creepy!"
douche bag: When you learn English, false friends are one of the first things on which our English teachers insist. So we are taught library, business, camera, all these nice little confusion listed in lists, but nobody ever warns us about the meaning of the word shower! Confusion can traumatize a French traveler in the USA. Yes, shower means a vaginal lavage. And thence of improper insults close enough ass hole, douche bag, no need to describe more.
Keg : the essential item of any good student night. The keg is a keg of about 15.5 gallons, ie 58.7 liters. At the top of the beast is placed a kind of pump that can have a beer cheap, convenient and environmentally friendly because under orders. The Keg is at the heart of American student socialization device: it allows to start the evening and quickly be messed up playing beer pong. This game, no one can escape it is to target the traditional red cups located at each end of the table. The standard in general is a ping pong table. Two teams battle and when the ball fell into the cup, we should drink bottoms up. As you will understand, is pretty basic, funny at the beginning, every week, it gets boring as American football.
Like : I returned from my fall break, passed in New York with my french buddies Sciences Po internship there. To return to Ann Arbor from Detroit airport (half hour drive), bus had been chartered for the students. Glad to get into my new "home", I sit the bus and horror, a revelation comes to listening to the discussion of girls next door. The classic American type soriorité, blonde model. Terrible moment of awareness of the poverty of the vocabulary of these girls, especially terror against the repetition of the word "like". There is a kind of social segregation in the hesitation when the teacher thinks about what he will say it elegantly employs the word "well" good academic has been taught. The ordinary student, himself, punctuating his sentence of about 3 or 4 "like" in peak hours. Since then, I mean like everywhere and it becomes a kind of obsession.
Geez! Oh my gosh! : Girls, Model soriorité generally have a fairly limited language you'll understand. In addition to employing ever the word "like", each story such as "creepy" that comes up in conversation that is somewhat original, is accompanied by an "oh my gosh!" Soft version of "Oh my God !
Geez! Oh my gosh! : Girls, Model soriorité generally have a fairly limited language you'll understand. In addition to employing ever the word "like", each story such as "creepy" that comes up in conversation that is somewhat original, is accompanied by an "oh my gosh!" Soft version of "Oh my God !
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