Thread: UK slang

Americano, after six months of learning authentic UK slang on YouTube:



Is this the boss happening pad? I for sure am digging the large American breasts of foxes!

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[video=youtube;w_zPmwvQFaM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_zPmwv /QUOTE]
...two wild and crazy guys

Originally Posted by sperk

...two wild and crazy guys

Сначала я хотел указать его на ролик Are You Being Served?, и сказать ему: Видите ли этого парня "Mr. Humphries"? Он грандмастер современного британского слэнга -- вам следует обращать внимание к нему, и тщалетьно имитировать его ВО ВСЕМ.



Но это казолось как-то "садистски", и я передумал...

But seriously, americano, the best type of "English slang" for you to learn use right now are words like "cool" (meaning, slang words which have been around since the 1950s, and which are equally understood by grandmothers and grandsons in New York, London, and Sydney).

If you try to be more specific and learn use 21st-century UK slang, you'll end up sounding like a Sasha Baron Cohen character.

P.S. In the above video-clip, "Mrs. Slocombe" (the purple-haired старуха) uses the phrase "cake-hole" to mean "mouth": "A special switch for Mr. Lucas, to shut his atomic cake-hole."

Edited to emphasize: It's certainly a good idea to learn foreign slang for "passive purposes" -- so that you can understand it if you hear or read it. But until you're much closer to "native ability" in a foreign language, you should not ACTIVELY USE slang in speaking or writing.