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What are the girls really like here?

Discussion in '☋ General Chat ☋' started by merlin, Sep 24, 2008.

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  1. daffs

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  2. Gene

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    Hi All;
    There is a perfect wife depending on how you look at it! My opinion is...A perfect wife is the one that does not expect a perfect husband.

    Thanks!
     
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    Right on Firea. Hooray! You hit the nail on the head.
     
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    Hi Firea;
    English is our second language, so we sound funny on our pronounciation as we have different "accent" to a foreigner who hears it especially somebody coming from the North America as they have their standard of pronounciation.Having said that, they are the one who speak funny based upon our local accent.
     
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    When I read The Dude's comment about "speaking funny" I took it to mean he was making fun of people that make assumptions of people based on their accents. Perhaps I'm being naive but I would like to think the best at first.
    Accents are interesting. Having met people from all over the world I've come to realize that in most cases the person speaking does not believe they have an accent, including myself. All my Canadian and Australian friends pronounce their words entirely correct from their point of view. What I find simultaneously interesting and amusing is my brother-in-law who speaks Tagalog and American English which he learned in school. After moving to Australia his English now carries the Aussie accent.
     
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    Ok, Ok, I will "splain" myself.

    Geez, if you have to explain the joke... :wink:

    In this case, "funny" simply means different, or something that is not English. Not good, not bad, no other hidden meanings, just different. This is just a case of "funny" in my part of the woods meaning something other than what a formal English education will teach you. We call this a "figure of speech." That means there is no direct translation. You either know the meaning of the statement or you don't.

    English is a colorful and sometimes hard to grasp language. Sometimes people are going to misunderstand and get offended. I'm sure the same happens with people who speak a little bit of Tagalog have a conversation with native speakers. There are just some parts of the language you will never know.

    Quite anticlimactic, sorry.
     
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    Oh, then it's worse than I thought. You were using "lingo" or "slang" or what may be termed a "colorful colloquialism".
    That's "funny" too.
    :rolleyes:
     
  10. firea

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    Seriously, I wasn't really asking. It was merely a rhetorical question.

    Thanks for the inputs though :smile:
     
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