French Slang What does it all mean? a allumé(e) (adj.) [pic]drunk [pic]lit: lit up b baiser ++ [pic]to fuck [pic]This sense has almost replaced the earlier one of "to kiss"‚ which in contemporary French is "embrasser". Do not use "baiser" to mean "to kiss" if you don’t want to be misunderstood! bander (verb‚ intransitive) [pic]to have a hard-on [pic]bander is commonly used for a bow drawn taut to let the arrow fly. Somehow the erect penis‚ hopefully hard‚ may have a
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Hello‚ Professor and classmates! Jargon relates to a group of professional or specific activity that use shorthand‚ to quickly express ideas that are discussed among members of a group. The colloquialism is an informal style of writing or speaking. Slang is a way of speaking with friends or acquaintances. Keep me in the loop this means let me know what’s discussed at the meeting or if you find out anything that’s going on in the other departments keeps us informed. Make sure I’m tracking- remind
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Is Hip-Hop Culture Harming Our Youth? Hip-hop culture is everywhere. The culture‚ which encompasses rapping‚ deejaying‚ break-dancing and graffiti-writing‚ has become so popular that it has entered mainstream fashion and modern language. It doesn’t stop there. The culture permeates everything from TV commercials to toys to video games. Currently‚ there is even a hip-hop exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. You name it‚ and hip hop is there representing. However‚ hip hop’s most potent form is its
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Everything we as human beings come into contact with in the social world has a role‚ however minor‚ in helping to shape our individual identities. However‚ the question has been posed‚ is it culture and socialisation which are more influential as a social process in developing our identity or is it the social structures which are the main shapers in developing our identity? The culture we are raised in and the people that we come into contact with on a daily basis as a young child are the first encounters
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international problem for our students. Our secondary schools teach the students only the bases of the English language. Our universities do not prepare them to the American streets‚ accommodations‚ pubs where American teenagers use their own language‚ the language that differs from that of their parents. They use other words; they use slang. None of the most advanced and flexible ways of teaching English of any country can catch modern quickly developing English. But our educational system is at
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Our Colonial Mentality‚Damaged Culture and Their Roots Then and now‚ an American -who has replaced more subtly‚ efficiently and effectively the Spaniard- seems to reside in the mind of each Filipino in each generation since the US conquest and occupation of the Philippines. Consequently‚ the Filipino has been conditioned to -knowingly or unknowingly- think and analyze economic and political issues in our homeland from the American point of view. To change this way of thinking‚ the American in
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(1) Helen Zia‚ in the article‚ Reinventing Our Culture‚ quotes a hapa (mixed heritage Asian American): People say that were a cultural bridge‚ or the other extreme‚ that we represent cultural degeneracy and we will dilute the culture Which viewpoint do you support? When the person explained that a person with a mixed heritage can be looked upon as a cultural bridge‚ or a representation of cultural degeneracy‚ I believe that they are a cultural bridge. I think that if more and more Asians became
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Culture Impact of Media There is an old saying”Man is a social animal”‚ which means beyond other requirements such as food and shelter‚ man has another fundamental need and that is‚ need of communication with each other. The urge of communication is a basic one and in our contemporary civilization‚ it has become a necessity for survival. In order to facilitate communication‚ man has established several means which have developed from time to time such as sending messages‚ letters‚ telephone
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The article Our Anxious Culture: Triggers for Anxiety by Richard Restak‚ discusses how anxiety affects our culture in the sense of how we choose and perceive many things around us. I found many of the topics Restak brings up very interesting and although when reading this the topics seem obvious‚ such as a hindsight bias‚ I did not think about them before reading the article. One of the topics I found interesting and seemed to correlate with all other topics brought up was the media and what they
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become very popular these days as well. But is social networking breaking down our culture and our social skills? Or is it a healthy way to stay in contact with people through the internet? By surfing the web‚ I came across an web-journal that featured an editorial on social networking. Written by Maria Quinlan‚ Social networking makes twits of us all‚ downplays the need for social networking and how it is deteriorating our society from within. Throughout this article‚ Quinlan‚ through Ethos Logos
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