Apr 03 2008
American Slang
It was May 27, 2005 when I came here to the USA on a fiancee visa. I may be nearing my third year of stay now but I sometimes still feel lost when talking to some folks here. They have words and phrases here that I feel awkward to say, words and phrases like …
- “I’m good ” when somebody asks me how I am. I feel like good should only be used to denote a trait like bad boy, good girl, that kind of thing. I usually just say, “I’m fine, thank you ” as we all have been taught in school.
- ” Have a good one “. I feel it’s not a complete sentence, like it lacks something… like a good “what” ? I feel much better if I say ” have a good day/ evening”.
- ” Talk to you later” or “See you later” . When somebody tells me “talk to you later” , I ask myself, ” will they be talking to me again later today or when ?? ” Just doesn’t make sense to me. Later for me means later today, not tomorrow, or the following month or what later for them means.
- “What’s up? “. The sun?
Some American terms doesn’t make sense to me sometimes. 
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Oh well, for lack of better things to do…
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