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m4l at 4:27 PM-
I have admired your usage of American slang. I think you have a sense of when and where to use it for emphasis. If you have a Chinese accent I think this is an unexpected contrast. Slang is not easy to grasp in another language.
And in a post some time ago, you may have mentioned that the Chinese language doesn’t have tenses or plurals. So there is another way to express those in Chinese (duh, and yes, I could google it).
Wow, Jester. Heartbreaker.
jester, dude has a job but is homeless? was it due to fire at the residence or something like that?
In fact, re Delta flight on the way down, a lady was trying to figure out when to board and it was obvious that she was Spanish speaking and struggling in English. So I talked to her a little in Spanish and she said “oh we should sit together.” It was 6:30 am, when I don’t do much English speaking, let alone Spanish. Anyhow, we were in different seats and I discovered I was sitting next to two empty seats. I was delighted to discover that I could stretch out and snooze the whole way down, when she came by to ask if she could sit by me. [me gritting teeth, wincing in my own mind….]. I told her I got no sleep the night before and wanted to sleep. I slept for the entire time from takeoff till 15 minutes before landing.
I love that.
Rob, where you think you got your pyschic genes from?
Jesus fucking Christ.
I just learned a coworker of mine is homeless. I had no idea. His girlfriend came up and was asking where she could go tonight to sleep and she offhandedly mentioned she had to wait for so-and-so to join her so they could go together.
“So-and-so? Who works here?”
“Yeah.”
I looked at another coworker who regularly speaks with this person and she nodded, yes, it’s true.
Lech, close enough policy covers me on spanish too. think it even covers me on Chinese
Gracias professor Lech. So you took that course?
many illegals here in the US have not gotten beyond 6th grade or so from really small towns