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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary
a question for all native speakers of English
Have you ever come across words or vocabulary or slang or phrasal verbs in your everyday conversation or in the newspapers or movies or songs that you don't know or understand their meanings that you have to guess? Are there a lot of them you don't know?
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Sure. When I read the Wall Street Journal, I better do so with a dictionary nearby, because there are often words I don't know. When I hear songs, there is all sorts of slang I don't know at all - and that's assuming I can even figure out what the words are!
- Sure.
- When I read the Wall Street Journal, I better do so with a dictionary nearby, because there are often words I don't know.
- When I hear songs, there is all sorts of slang I don't know at all - and that's assuming I can even figure out what the words are!
- Even at work, different industries have their own jargon and it takes a while to learn it all.
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Sure.
When I read the Wall Street Journal, I better do so with a dictionary nearby, because there are often words I don't know.
When I hear songs, there is all sorts of slang I don't know at all - and that's assuming I can even figure out what the words are!
Even at work, different industries have their own jargon and it takes a while to learn it all.
When I read the Wall Street Journal, I better do so with a dictionary nearby, because there are often words I don't know.
When I hear songs, there is all sorts of slang I don't know at all - and that's assuming I can even figure out what the words are!
Even at work, different industries have their own jargon and it takes a while to learn it all.
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Grammar GeekSure.
When I read the Wall Street Journal, I better do so with a dictionary nearby,
Not to mention Joseph Conrad!
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AnonymousHave you ever come across words or vocabulary or slang or phrasal verbs in your everyday conversation or in the newspapers or movies or songs that you don't know or understand their meanings that you have to guess? Are there a lot of them you don't know?Yes, it occasionally happens to me, but not often. Usually it's an unusual new word invented by
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