Common american english slang for conversational english

wrote on 14 Apr 2005:
[nq:1]I tried to find a list of common american english slang on the internet, but I couldn't find one is useful. I am a non-native speaker, and I want to learn more on conversational english, please give me some good pointers. please advise. thanks!![/nq]
Read novels and comic books. Watch as many bad American TV sitcoms as you can. Memorize the scripts for as many A

[nq:1]wrote on 14 Apr 2005:[/nq]
[nq:2]I tried to find a list of common american english ... english, please give me some good pointers. please advise. thanks!![/nq]
[nq:1]Read novels and comic books. Watch as many bad American TV sitcoms as you can. Memorize the scripts for as ... Read the newsgroups. Visit the chatrooms. Get right into the gutter of American speech and it will cleanse yo

Einde O'Callaghan wrote on 15 Apr 2005:
[nq:2]wrote on 14 Apr 2005: Read novels and comic books. ... gutter of American speech and it will cleanse your soul.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'd like to add that by the time lists of slang appear on the Internet the words they contain are probably already out of date or old-fashioned.[/nq]
Yes, yes, yes. Twenty-three skidoo!

Franke: EFL teacher & me

[nq:1]Einde O'Callaghan wrote on 15 Apr 2005:[/nq]
[nq:2]I'd like to add that by the time lists of ... they contain are probably already out of date or old-fashioned.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes, yes, yes. Twenty-three skidoo![/nq]
LOL
Regards, Einde

[nq:1]wrote on 14 Apr 2005:[/nq]
[nq:2]I tried to find a list of common american english ... english, please give me some good pointers. please advise. thanks!![/nq]
[nq:1]Read novels and comic books. Watch as many bad American TV sitcoms as you can. Memorize the scripts for as ... Read the newsgroups. Visit the chatrooms. Get right into the gutter of American speech and it will cleanse yo

[nq:2]wrote on 14 Apr 2005: Read novels and comic books. ... gutter of American speech and it will cleanse your soul.[/nq]
[nq:1]And your mind, of anything resembling a language governed by simply understood rules. And get right down in the same gutter, and it will dirty your mind and your soul. If garbage is what you want.[/nq]
The point is that language as such isn't governed by simply u

[nq:2]wrote on 14 Apr 2005: Read novels and comic books. ... gutter of American speech and it will cleanse your soul.[/nq]
[nq:1]And your mind, of anything resembling a language governed by simply understood rules. And get right down in the same gutter, and it will dirty your mind and your soul. If garbage is what you want.[/nq]
Presumably you're an English teacher.
Kindly note that yo

[nq:2]And your mind, of anything resembling a language governed by ... mind and your soul. If garbage is what you want.[/nq]
Yes, we are a gutteral lot here.
Ross Clark

[nq:2]And your mind, of anything resembling a language governed by ... mind and your soul. If garbage is what you want.[/nq]
[nq:1]Presumably you're an English teacher. Kindly note that you're crossposting to a linguistics group.[/nq]
I thought he was one of yours, since he's never posted here before as far as I can remember.
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan (English teacher)
(posting fr