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Stevenukd Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

SILENT HILL

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001. Come on you guys! get our asses up to silent hill.02br
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00- "get our asses up to silent hill" means "go up to silent hill", right?02br
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002. She's all alone.02br
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00- This means "she's very alone", right?02br
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00Thanks very much to Teachers,02br
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00 Stevenukd.0-
  

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0 1. 02br 00 2. 02br 01i 00all alone02i 00 is the same as 01i 00alone02i 00.

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01i00all alone02i00 is the same as 01i00alone02i00. The addition of 01i00all02i00 may add a tone of pity in certain contexts, but in any case 01i00alone02i00 means there is no one else present, so it's not really possible to be 01i00very
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0Come on you guys! 01b01i00Get02i02b00 our ***** up to 01i00silent hill.02i02br
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01i00What does 'silent hill' mean? It appears a queer phrase to me.02i0-
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0Could they referring to the computer game of that name? It is the town's name in the game.0-
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0 It is probably the name of a particular place. For that reason it should be written Silent Hill.02br
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00 (By the way, the word 01i00queer02i00 has practically dropped out of the language in recent times because of its association with homosexuality. I know very few people in the U.S., for example, who would not be somewhat embarrassed by hea
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0Hi CJ02br
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00I don't know whether 'queer' is embarrassing to British speakers of English. If it is, then it is similar to 'gay'. I would like to hear from native speakers of BrE. 02br
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0 Same thing in British English. It's not embarrassing as such, but 99% of the current day uses are to mean 'gay/homosexual'. It would probably raise a bit of a giggle used in another sense. 0-
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0Thanks, Nona, for your reply. So 'queer' and 'gay' are no longer what they used to mean.02br
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00When I was in my first year of school, 'gay' meant 'happy'. For example, the last two sentences I wrote in my composition on 'My Birthday' were "We enjoyed ourselves. We were very gay." That was long, long ago.0-
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00So 'queer' and 'gay' are no longer what they used to mean.12blockquote
10True. Of the two, 01i00queer02i00 is the derogatory one. Your old birthday composition is actually pretty funny in today's language!02br
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0 That shows English is always evolving. 0-
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