We have a similar term out west, called the 'butt fuck,' but I've definitely heard slut butt as well.
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Same. It's a shame that it will soon be moribund, it's such a versatile word. Chinook jargon (the créole language the word comes from) was known for having a limited vocabulary, which resulted in many of its words having multiple nuances in meaning.
Darts = cigarettes
Chesterfield = couch
Skookum = solid, strong
Beauty can be an adverb. ex: That's beauty!
Er what? Places emphasis on a question. ex: Was that a good show er what?
Eh ? = The classic, but can be used differently than most people think. Normally it is used as a question marker, but can also be used to show indifference to a topic when combined with a dismissive tone. ex: "I went to the party last night." "Ya, eh?"
Coastal British Columbia.
Also, we have a very recognizable shibboleth that comes in handy sometimes: the pronunciation of "Vancouver." Anyone who was born in Metro Vancouver or the surrounding areas will pronounce the "van-" with an '-ng" sound, like wang. Most people don't even realise it, and I have no idea where this phenomenon comes from, but personally I find it emblematic of the sociolect used in the trades and other 'blue collar' occupations in the province. There's a certain sing-song character in the intonation that, having moved away from there, I find myself missing at times.
I use Libristo for books in English, which are pretty hard to come by in France. They've been okay so far, but the delivery times are a little long for my liking. I haven't used Amazon personally for ages, and I've convinced my wife to stop using them as well. I much prefer to order things from companies that are more specialised anyways; the one-stop-shop model is parasitic imo.
Ouch, I wasn't privy to the particulars, nor am I a resident of Switzerland, merely an admirer of how things are run there (usually). I guess the people's notions of liberty aren't as strong there as I had thought!
Luckily, thanks to Switzerland's direct democracy model, Proton and co. will likely garner enough signatures to challenge this with a referendum. What makes me worry is how they've tried to introduce this without consulting parliament.
Can confirm, she was featured in a program about Swiss naturalisation that I watched the other day. There were plenty of other candidates who were trying to integrate that were much less annoying than her, yet they still were having difficulty. It doesn't surprise me one bit that they denied her.
Yup, can confirm. Also, if it's past 6 pm, make sure to switch to 'bonsoir'.
If it's someone I know, I just say 'salut'. It's way more casual, and can also be used as goodbye to boot.
That's the thing, I usually try and win in castle age with knights and skirms. If the game goes into imp I definitely try to make the switch, mostly because of the fast creation time. It's a great civ to practice getting relics with in any case!
I feel seen, but then again I'll still keep queueing up. Lithuanian knights go brrrrrr
The saving grace with French is that when you read a word, you can (almost always) divine its pronunciation immediately. I'm not saying a reform isn't in order, as not pronouncing half the letters in a word seems kinda stupid, but in my opinion English is several orders of magnitude worse. My spouse, who practically learned English through me while we lived in an Anglophone country for almost a decade and is quite fluent, still can't spell worth a shit.
And even us native speakers have to guess the correct pronunciation of words we haven't heard before, which is insane. When l was young I was a voracious reader, but having never heard many of the more uncommon words spoken before, I often internalised the wrong way of saying them.
Fuck it, I'm on board. Let's gut this thing and start fresh.
Hell ya brother !