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SeoulMan99
Joined: 02 Aug 2009
Location: Seoul
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| nautilus wrote: |
J-walking. I never really understood this one.
Is it..
a) Walking in the shape of the letter "J".
b) Dangerously crossing a street at a place other than the pedestrian crossing.
c) Walking as if stoned or drunk.
d) Crossing the pedestrian crossing while the red man is showing.
e) none of the above. |
B & D. It is crossing a street dangerously or illegally. Jay use to refer to a person who was stupid, so a jaywalker is a stupid walker.
Neither Jaywalker or Teabagger (except lately) is used much. If you saw a guy crossing between crosswalks you wouldn't be like hey there is a jaywalker. It's never enforced. |
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ThingsComeAround
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toadkillerdog
Joined: 11 Nov 2009
Location: Daejeon. ROK
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| If someone can explain to me why Australians call a red-headed person "bluey" I will give them 2 bits. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| toadkillerdog wrote: |
| If someone can explain to me why Australians call a red-headed person "bluey" I will give them 2 bits. |
...I'm guessing its because redheads are percieved as more hot-headed and argumentative. |
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sqrlnutz123
Joined: 15 Jun 2009
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| ^ but why does that make them 'Blue'? |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:33 am Post subject: |
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| Why do they call it "taking a dump" and not "leaving a dump"? |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:55 am Post subject: |
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| sqrlnutz123 wrote: |
| ^ but why does that make them 'Blue'? |
Because 'blue' is another word for 'stoush'. |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:34 am Post subject: |
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[quote="nautilus"]
| reactionary wrote: |
umm...are these intentionally easy? |
Not everyone has been to north america.
The sheer abundance of localised idiom, colloquiallisms and slang from your country poses an abstacle for people learning english, as well as non-north americans who actually speak the language properly.
Its patronising to expect everyone on the planet to automatically understand your jargon. Most of the time it just sounds totally stupid and is detrimental to the language.
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