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Re: English
« Reply #40 on: November 12, 2009, 08:46:44 PM »
Please, could anyone tell me the right pronunciation of the name Kutcher (Ashton Kutcher). Is it KOUCHE as in butcher, or KUCHE as in cut? The mass media in Russia has it different all the time. Thank you!
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Re: English
« Reply #41 on: November 12, 2009, 11:40:37 PM »
it's KOUCHE as in butcher, I believe
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Re: English
« Reply #42 on: November 12, 2009, 11:46:06 PM »
Yes, its basically Butcher but replace the "B" with a "K"
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Re: English
« Reply #43 on: November 13, 2009, 08:41:03 PM »
Thank you so much! And the mass media usually says "cutcher"...
And Jude Law is often "Jud" as in "cut". Unbelievable!
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Re: English
« Reply #44 on: November 14, 2009, 09:08:28 PM »
Please, I need your help badly!
What does the word "spookaroony" mean? Maybe it doesn`t exist? Or is it just spooky?
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Re: English
« Reply #45 on: November 14, 2009, 09:16:24 PM »
Just spooky. It's like a youth bend/twist on a word for hipness/trendiness or comical value. :)
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Re: English
« Reply #46 on: November 14, 2009, 10:08:26 PM »
Quote from: An Apple Beatle on November 14, 2009, 09:16:24 PM
Just spooky. It's like a youth bend/twist on a word for hipness/trendiness or comical value. :)

Thank you very much, Apple Beatle!   :)
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Re: English
« Reply #47 on: December 04, 2009, 10:42:03 PM »
Native speakers of English! Please, tell me whether the word GAY is now used only in the meaning of homosexual or if it is still used in the meaning of MERRY as it was decades ago.   2ch
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Re: English
« Reply #48 on: December 04, 2009, 11:05:33 PM »
^It's usually just used now a days as a term for homosexual. I don't hear it being used the old fashion way. If you did try to use it the old fashion way at my school they would have laughed at me probably. They weren't very nice sometimes.
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Re: English
« Reply #49 on: December 05, 2009, 02:05:28 AM »
Very rarely in its original sense anymore... if you read a few books and some older text then it's not so unfamiliar in it's original meaning. :) I like the original, happy abandon of it's first meaning.
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Re: English
« Reply #50 on: December 05, 2009, 06:54:43 PM »
Thank you very much, An Apple Beatle and Randy! The use of the word is clear now!  :)
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Re: English
« Reply #51 on: December 07, 2009, 03:24:44 AM »
^^ Yes, when you use it in its original way now-a-days it seems so out of place to people. I went to a shop in South Carolina called "The Gay Dolphin" which had been around since 1910's or something like that, the place took on a whole new meaning  ;)
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Re: English
« Reply #52 on: December 07, 2009, 08:14:34 AM »
The Gay Dolphin?? LOL!!
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Re: English
« Reply #53 on: December 07, 2009, 09:28:01 AM »
Quote from: An Apple Beatle on December 05, 2009, 02:05:28 AM
Very rarely in its original sense anymore... if you read a few books and some older text then it's not so unfamiliar in it's original meaning. :) I like the original, happy abandon of it's first meaning.

I sometimes use it jokingly, but you need to know the person you're speaking to!

Actually, thinking about it, the term 'Gay' meaning homosexual, derives from it's original use anyway. Someone who was gay would be bright and colourful, extroverted, the life and soul of the party etc. So it makes sense.
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Re: English
« Reply #54 on: December 07, 2009, 10:00:10 AM »
Quote from: BlueMeanie on December 07, 2009, 09:28:01 AM

Actually, thinking about it, the term 'Gay' meaning homosexual, derives from it's original use anyway. Someone who was gay would be bright and colourful, extroverted, the life and soul of the party etc. So it makes sense.
Obviously you don't hang around the same truck stops as I do.
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Re: English
« Reply #55 on: December 07, 2009, 10:46:29 AM »
Quote from: emmi_luvs_beatles on December 07, 2009, 03:24:44 AM
^^ Yes, when you use it in its original way now-a-days it seems so out of place to people. I went to a shop in Florida called "The Gay Dolphin" which had been around since 1910's or something like that, the place took on a whole new meaning  ;)

Something I read a while ago that I found quite funny:
"Dolphins are just gay sharks".
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Re: English
« Reply #56 on: December 07, 2009, 11:30:15 AM »
Quote from: Kevin on December 07, 2009, 10:00:10 AM
Obviously you don't hang around the same truck stops as I do.

I thought I'd seen you at the Watford Gap!
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Re: English
« Reply #57 on: December 08, 2009, 12:42:38 AM »
Quote from: Penny Lane on December 07, 2009, 08:14:34 AM
The Gay Dolphin?? LOL!!

LOL yup!! But when it was manufactured it didn't mean Homosexual. But my dad still has a shirt that says "The Gay Dolphin, Myrtle Beach SC." He doesn't wear it anymore though ;D
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Re: English
« Reply #58 on: February 08, 2010, 05:09:22 PM »
Quote from: Jane on February 19, 2009, 08:41:24 PM
In a supermarket.
"Why don`t you watch where you are going?" "Er...Sorry," stammered Oliver. "Let me help you." He began to pick tins up. "It really wasn`t my fault, though, you know. I was just..." The girl grabbed a tin of tuna from his hands. "Never mind", she said, her basket full, and she strode off down the aisle without looking back. Oliver watched her go and sighed.
Now the question.
When Oliver offers to help, the young woman
 1. Forgives him for what he has done.
 2. Shows that she doesn`t trust him.
 3. Thanks him despite her anger.
 4. Refuses to listen to his explanation.
Which is the correct answer?

I am at a loss.  :(

hah) Maybe it's sounds funny, but I had this text in september when we hed test) I had a mistake with number 1. But we were told that the correct answer is 4, because the girl grabbed a tin of tuna from his hands. So she was rude and irritable by his act and didn't speak with him.
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