How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?

[Torsten]

Amy, thinking about it again, you are probably also right in saying that the authors and/or editors might have thought that their readers won't be able to distinguish between Germans and Austrians anyway. I could imagine that many Americans and Brits think Austrians are like Bavarians -- some type of Germans living in the south of Germany.
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[Yankee]

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It's sometimes unbelievable what people who have never traveled outside the US (or their own country) think they know.

I still clearly remember some of the "ridiculous" questions my mother asked me just prior to my departure for what was then "West Germany" (back in 1989). Worrying (as mothers tend to do) about her daughter's well-being in a foreign country, my mom asked me whether West Germany had running water. I could hardly believe that my own mother didn't know the answer to that question. I remember reassuring her by pointing out that the part of of Germany I was heading for was where Mercedes-Benz cars are made. That convinced her.
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[prezbucky]

Amy/LS

Yeah, that's it ("tight"): A person or a thing that looks good, acts cool, is cool or is stylish

I think it's fairly recent, Amy... maybe since (very roughly) the 1990s, maybe the early-mid '90s.
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[Conchita]

Thanks for a good laugh, Amy! The article looked so dubious, I just had to check it out (what with the awful typography and all).

There are some really funny town names around the world!

[lost_soul]

Hi, Amy
Yeah, the article is gross and tight. It made me ROTFFLOL
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Alex

How much upchuck would a woodchuck upchuck if a woodchuck could upchuck ?

(a guy from Russia)

[Haihao]

I am familiar with ROTFL (= rolling on the floor, laughing), right? But what is ROTFFLOL?

Thank you!

[lost_soul]

rolling on the fackin floor laughting out loud

(sorry for swearing on this forum - I didnt mean it :ops )
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Alex

How much upchuck would a woodchuck upchuck if a woodchuck could upchuck ?

(a guy from Russia)

[Yankee]

[prezbucky]

Haihao/LS

There is another such acronym:

ROTFLMAO

rolling on the floor laughing my *ss off
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[Englishuser]

Hi,

[Yankee]

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You know, EU, I'd be willing to bet that quite a few more native speakers of English would manage to correctly decipher ROTFLMAO than IELTS.
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I would certainly expect any IELTS expert to be able to correctly identify at least the ROTFL part.
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[Englishuser]

Hi Amy,

Do you think that clerical markers and senior examiners employed by the British Council in London are mostly non-native speakers?

All the best

EU

[Yankee]

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I really don't know, EU, but it seems likely to me that they'd have plenty of native speakers on board. I would expect an expert non-native speaker to be able to identify 'ROTFL', too. In fact, I would expect that there are even some people that hardly speak English at all who would be able to identify ROTFL.
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By the way, the 'LMAO' part of 'ROTFLMAO' stands for a commonly used expression in informal American English.
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[Englishuser]

Hi Amy,

[prezbucky]

EU

Egads (!), yeah, I hope nobody actually tries to use such acronyms/abbreviations on a test or in formal writing!

Folks, that stuff is for INFORMAL WRITING ONLY!
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