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BAYRAM ERDEM Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Dangit!
Hello!
Could you please help me understand the following sentence?
'' Dangit, I wanted more h's and a's on that. It was supposed to be a laugh not a sarcastic 'hah' ''
What is the speaker talking about?
Am I right in saying that 'Dangit' is a slightly more polite way of saying 'Damn it!' ?
What are h's and a's for?
Could you please help me understand the following sentence?
'' Dangit, I wanted more h's and a's on that. It was supposed to be a laugh not a sarcastic 'hah' ''
What is the speaker talking about?
Am I right in saying that 'Dangit' is a slightly more polite way of saying 'Damn it!' ?
What are h's and a's for?
Top answer
I think the speaker is saying he wanted a "ha-ha-ha-ha-ha" noise, more representative of someone genuinely laughing, rather than a "hah", which could be sarcastic or contemptuous. ' ? Right.
- I think the speaker is saying he wanted a "ha-ha-ha-ha-ha" noise, more representative of someone genuinely laughing, rather than a "hah", which could be sarcastic or contemptuous.
- ' ?
- Right.
- Traditionally "****" was quite a bad word, so people used euphemisims like "dang".
- Nowadays many people (at least in the UK) use "****" fairly freely, but the euphemisms still stick.
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I think the speaker is saying he wanted a "ha-ha-ha-ha-ha" noise, more representative of someone genuinely laughing, rather than a "hah", which could be sarcastic or contemptuous.
BAYRAM ERDEMAm I right in saying that 'Dangit' is a slightly more polite way of saying '**** it!' ?Right. Traditionally "****" was quite a bad word, so people used euphemisims like "d
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