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Wrong accent! Tue Apr 22, 2008 13:13 pm  Wrong accent!
 

prezbucky wrote:
I rail on the rounded Cali vowels, .

Hi, Tom
Could you (or anyone else who can Smile ) explain to me the meaning of "rail on" ?
Does it mean "feel uncomfortable/not confident with" ?

Thanks !
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Wrong accent! Tue Apr 22, 2008 13:22 pm  Wrong accent!
 

rail = complain, get angry,etc. I think.
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Wrong accent! Tue Apr 22, 2008 13:26 pm  Wrong accent!
 

Alex, to "rail" means to complain strongly or persistently about something. When you "rail on" you persist and persist and persist in your complaining.

My mother had a professor who railed on about insurance for the whole class period. If they didn't want to study that day, someone would just bring up insurance, and he'd go off on an everlasting rant.

I had a music teacher in elementary school who would rail on about the difference between the affluence we kids grew up in compared to the poverty he saw in Korea during the war. I also had a nun in junior high who used to rail on about the depravity of the teenagers of the day. It would go on for an hour every week. She never taught us anything she was supposed to.
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Wrong accent! Tue Apr 22, 2008 20:05 pm  Wrong accent!
 

Jamie, like ohmigod!

"I'm Janelle Pearson here like with like Channel 4 News, the grooviest media outlet in the City of Angels. The Lakers were totally rad tonight! Kobe like totally dominated everyone... he was off the hook, totally."

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Wrong accent! Tue Apr 22, 2008 20:05 pm  Wrong accent!
 

(no offense to any Janelle Pearsons out there)
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