American slang for british people
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People restrain from frantic gestures, especially in formal situations. They, however, tend to smile a lot which is considered polite and friendly behaviour. The following is a description of the most common gestures in England. It is worth keeping it in mind, however, that using gestures appropriately is as difficult as using slang.
[DOC File]Peter Trudgill, The Dialects of England
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Students will consider some scholarly and scientific observations about the people, language, culture, and subcultures of the US, including such topics as regional, social, and ethnic variations; differences between British and American English; and styles of self-presentation such as straightforwardness, informality, and prudery.
[DOC File]THE LATEST YOUTH SLANG –extracts from the Archive
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Always remember the importance of familiarity. Until the 1930s few people in Britain had heard an American accent. Now we take them for granted. The two dialects are also diverging grammatically, though very slowly. In contrast they are converging lexically: until the 1950s British people said wireless.
[DOC File]How Linguists Approach the Study of Language and Dialect
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Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'. Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers for 12 hours …
[DOC File]AN33200 ASPECTS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH
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Please do not confuse street slang with Africanized English. America On-Line contributor, 12/23/96. . .all alive art is rebellious, and all alive speech, slang or otherwise, is rebellious, rebellious in the healthy sense that they challenge the stale and the conventional. Clarence Major, Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African American Slang, 1994.
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flossed-up, flossied-up adj American. dressed ostentatiously, presenting an extravagant or elegant appearance. The term has been widespread since 2000. Floss here is from dental-floss(underwear) a slang term for thongs, when these were thought novel and pretentious. fudge n British…
[DOC File]Slang WORKSHEET A - Inside Out
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, used in some American cities such as Boston and New York as a term for a convenience store. booger (slang) a piece of nasal mucus (UK: bogey) bookmobile a large vehicle housing a mobile lending library (UK: mobile library) boombox a large portable stereo, syn. with . ghettoblaster, which is also American in origin but is common in the UK ...
Gestures and body language in American culture
3. All the people Karolina works with are American. 4. Karolina sometimes finds her job tiring. 5. Mark doesn’t think he knows any Australian slang. 6. Karolina didn’t know that “zonked” is slang. 7. Karolina knew what “loaded” means. 8. Two of the people Karolina works with are also from the Czech Republic. 9.
[DOC File]Slang WORKSHEET A
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3. All the people Karolina works with are British. 4. Karolina sometimes finds her job tiring. 5. Mark doesn’t think he knows any Australian slang. 6. Karolina didn’t know that ‘knackered’ is slang. 7. Karolina knew what ‘dodgy’ means. 8. Two of the people Karolina works with are also from the Czech Republic. 9.
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