You cannot be modernize in English until ………….
>* You don’t open a conversation ( on phone ) with a ‘hello’ but with a ‘hi’
>* The telephone is never engaged it’s always ‘busy’.
>* You don’t ‘disconnect’ a phone, you simply ‘hang-up’.
>* You never ‘mess-up’ things; you only ‘screw them up’.
>* You never have a ‘residence’ number, you have a ‘home’ number.
>* You never have an ‘office’ telephone; you have a ‘work’ phone.
>* You don’t stop at the ‘signals’, but halt at the ‘lights’.
>* Your tire never ‘punctures’, you may have a ‘flat’.
>* There are no ‘petrol pumps’, but ‘gas stations’.
>* You no longer meet a ‘wonderful’ person, you meet a ‘cool’ guy.
>* No one stays ‘a stone’s throw away’, rather ‘a few blocks away’.
>* There’s no ‘Town Side’, it’s ‘Down Town’.
>* Life’s no longer ‘miserable’ it ‘stinks’.
>* You don’t have a ‘great’ time, you have a ‘ball’.
>* You no longer live in ‘flats’, you live in ‘apartments.’
>* You don’t stand in a ‘queue’, you are in a ‘line’.
>* You are not ‘disgusting’, you are ‘sick’.
>* You never ‘joke’. U just ‘kid’. For example, ‘Are you kidding ?.
>* You don’t ask somebody ‘ How r u ?’ You say ‘What’s up dude ?.
>* There is no full stop after the statement, there’s a period.
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You cannot be modernize in English until.........
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You cannot be modernize in English until.........
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I'm afraid you omitted this line (second from below):
# is not hash, it's pound.
http://sanskriti.neu.edu/language.htm
http://www.zatang.com/tens/american.htm
http://www.ansh.com/arkschfun/FUN/topm.html
http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/~kanagasa/i ... rican.html
Click on any of the above URL's for more....
OR DIRECTLY CLICK THIS LINK
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?it ... gs=0&kls=0
# is not hash, it's pound.
http://sanskriti.neu.edu/language.htm
http://www.zatang.com/tens/american.htm
http://www.ansh.com/arkschfun/FUN/topm.html
http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/~kanagasa/i ... rican.html
Click on any of the above URL's for more....
OR DIRECTLY CLICK THIS LINK
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?it ... gs=0&kls=0
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[quote="Asep"]I'm afraid you omitted this line (second from below):
# is not hash, it's pound.
http://sanskriti.neu.edu/language.htm
http://www.zatang.com/tens/american.htm
http://www.ansh.com/arkschfun/FUN/topm.html
http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/~kanagasa/i ... rican.html
Click on any of the above URL's for more....
OR DIRECTLY CLICK THIS LINK
Hi,
These links are not known to me before. Thanks for telling me about them. Thanks
# is not hash, it's pound.
http://sanskriti.neu.edu/language.htm
http://www.zatang.com/tens/american.htm
http://www.ansh.com/arkschfun/FUN/topm.html
http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/~kanagasa/i ... rican.html
Click on any of the above URL's for more....
OR DIRECTLY CLICK THIS LINK
Hi,
These links are not known to me before. Thanks for telling me about them. Thanks
I can't change the direction of the wind but I can adjust my sails to my destinations.