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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

speak like a fob

When someone "speaks like a fob", what does that really mean?

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Hi, Where did you find this expression? Can you supply some context? Are you sure you have spelled the word 'fob' correctly?

— Clive

  • Hi, Where did you find this expression?
  • Can you supply some context?
  • Are you sure you have spelled the word 'fob' correctly?
  • Clive
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Hi,
Where did you find this expression? Can you supply some context?

Are you sure you have spelled the word 'fob' correctly?

Clive
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I've seen this in a discussion forum. They were talking about how ppl from other countries are bad in spoken English but are good in writing and they referred them as "speak like a fob"....
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Hi,
It just sounds like a mistake to me.

Clive
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Was it perhaps 'fop' instead of 'fob'?
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FOB is an acronym for "Fresh Off the Boat" a derisive term for Asians particularly whose mannerisms are decidedly un-American and old-World. Usually used by Asians who are white- or black-washed into the American mainstream. The connotation isn't just someone who is newly arrived and usually doesn't speak English well, it also tends to refer to someone nerdy, socially backward, wh
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nona the britWas it perhaps 'fop' instead of 'fob'?
That was my first reaction too, but it's actually FOB -- "Fresh Off the Boat," according to Urban Dictionary. In other words, a recent immigrant -- what my Grandmother would have called a "greener" (for "greenhorn").
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Hi,
Not only have I never heard the term 'fob', I've never heard the term 'black-washed ' either.

Clive
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Thank you very much for all the replies Emotion: smile
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-washed: very influenced by the culture of; said of those who are not part of that culture
white-washed Asians are those who take on the characteristics of whites
black-washed Asians are those who take on the characteristics of blacks
and so on.
I've also seen "hispanic-washed". We used to say that something of a culture "rubs off" on others. It's a sort of new idiom that means
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Interesting thread........
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