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I just had the cutest ESL exchange, and after working in the Language Learning Center for 2 years, I have become desensitized to most cases of cute ESLisms. Today two of our regulars came in, a Japanese guy (Yosuke) and a Vietnamese guy (Ngu), both (presumably, from interactions past) gay, and Ngu commented on my shirt (which has a floral motif
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I like being able to say things like that to you and to have you understand them. That is something that the UK-educated rest-of-the-English faculty have yet to do. For that reason (they are getting fewer and fewer), I like having grown up in our teenage-by-comparison country, far away from buggery like "I fancy you", "You're taking the Mickey out'a me!" and (the most bewildering) "Sorted."
Your friend in slang (and missing-ies)
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Also, in case it was phrased awkwardly, I don't think I was being hit on, I said they were (presumably) gay because the Vietnamese guy is a totaly Mary, and because the Japanese guy I saw at QFC on broadway at 2 AM shopping for groceries with his much older, white boyfriend (a random encounter which has flavored our subsequent exchanges with a lot of awkwardness). Not that I wouldn't be mackin' up that shit given the chance, Yosuke is one fine bitch, and if it weren't for scowling sugar daddy with all them temptin' benjis I probably would have already tried to get up in that. Holla?
Kris, I miss you and your lyrical gymnastics. You phrase a funny on the fly like no one else i know. If I wind up moving to Bangkok this summer, which is looking more and more likely, I quite insist that you come visit me. Sha?
ton ami in slangies. i just tried to invent french.
scoop.
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