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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #31 (permalink) Wed May 30, 2007 18:02 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

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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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #32 (permalink) Wed May 30, 2007 18:13 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

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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. :lol:
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #33 (permalink) Wed May 30, 2007 18:30 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

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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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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #34 (permalink) Wed May 30, 2007 23:22 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

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!

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A similar phenomenon can be attributed to Bavarian places such as Kissing and Petting, although clearly less outside attention is paid due to less obscene names. Other village names with an English-language connotation are Hacking and Rottenegg in upper Austria, Attaching near Munich, Mailing near Ingolstadt and the Berlin neighborhood Wedding.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/xyz,_Austria

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #35 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 6:57 am   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Hi, Amy
Yeah, the article is gross and tight. It made me ROTFFLOL :)
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #36 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 9:18 am   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

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

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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #37 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 9:34 am   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

rolling on the fackin floor laughting out loud

(sorry for swearing on this forum - I didnt mean it :ops )
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #38 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 11:28 am   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Conchita wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've tried to use a swear word but it doesn't work here.,_Austria
Hi Conchita

Did you notice that the forum software censored you link? :lol:

Thanks for the link! It answered a question that I had asked my German friends throughout my 17 years in Germany: Why are there so many towns in southern Germany that have names ending with '-ing'? The answer to that question had always been a shrug of the shoulders. Nobody could tell me. Nobody had a clue. I'd even tried to find the answer with the help of Ms Google on occasion. Now, at long last, and thanks to your Wikipedia link, I've got my answer:

“Ing” is an old Germanic suffix meaning “people”.

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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #39 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 15:49 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Haihao/LS

There is another such acronym:

ROTFLMAO

rolling on the floor laughing my *ss off
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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #40 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 18:34 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Hi,

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ROTFLMAO

rolling on the floor laughing my *ss off

ROTFFLOL? rolling on the fackin floor laughting out loud


I just hope no one viewing this forum will use these on the IELTS test. I wonder if even clerical markers or senior examiners would know how to decipher them!

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Just a philosophical thought... #41 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 18:56 pm   Just a philosophical thought...
 

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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. :wink:
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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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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #42 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 19:49 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Hi Amy,

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

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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #43 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:11 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

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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. :wink:
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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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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #44 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:25 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

Hi Amy,

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In fact, I would expect that there are even some people that hardly speak English at all who would be able to identify ROTFL.


You are so right.

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How do you praise girl who is very beautiful? #45 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:30 pm   How do you praise girl who is very beautiful?
 

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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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