Anonymous    623324 Thu, 14 Apr 05 09:06 AM I tried to find a list of common american english slang on the internet, but I couldn't find one is useful. I am a non-native speaker, and I want to learn more on conversational english, please give me some good pointers. please advise. thanks!! Anonymous American English, Online, Speaking, Chat, Friendships, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States, American, Conversational, Languages, Conversational English

	CyberCypher    623337 Thu, 14 Apr 05 11:53 AM wrote on 14 Apr 2005: "I tried to find a list of common american english slang on the internet, but I couldn't find one is useful. I am a non-native speaker, and I want to learn more on conversational english, please give me some good pointers. please advise. thanks!!" Read novels and comic books. Watch as many bad American TV sitcoms as you can. Memorize the scripts for as many American action movies as you can. Forget lists of slang on the Internet. Read the newsgroups. Visit the chatrooms. Get right into the gutter of American speech and it will cleanse your soul. Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor For email, replace numbers with English alphabet. CyberCypher American English, Online, Speaking, Chat, Friendships, Countries, United Kingdom, Writing, United States, Speeches, American, Conversational, Languages, Conversational English

	Einde O'Callaghan    623348 Thu, 14 Apr 05 05:09 PM "wrote on 14 Apr 2005:" "I tried to find a list of common american english ... english, please give me some good pointers. please advise. thanks!!" "Read novels and comic books. Watch as many bad American TV sitcoms as you can. Memorize the scripts for as ... Read the newsgroups. Visit the chatrooms. Get right into the gutter of American speech and it will cleanse your soul." I'd like to add that by the time lists of slang appear on the Internet the words they contain are probably already out of date or old-fashioned. Regards, Einde O'Callaghan Einde O'Callaghan Regards, Dates, American English, Online, Speaking, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States, Speeches, American, Languages

	CyberCypher    623351 Thu, 14 Apr 05 06:12 PM Einde O'Callaghan wrote on 15 Apr 2005: "wrote on 14 Apr 2005: Read novels and comic books. ... gutter of American speech and it will cleanse your soul." "I'd like to add that by the time lists of slang appear on the Internet the words they contain are probably already out of date or old-fashioned." Yes, yes, yes. Twenty-three skidoo! Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor For email, replace numbers with English alphabet. CyberCypher Dates, Online, Speaking, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Writing, United States, Speeches, American, Languages

	Anonymous    623401 Wed, 20 Apr 05 07:50 PM "wrote on 14 Apr 2005:" "I tried to find a list of common american english ... english, please give me some good pointers. please advise. thanks!!" "Read novels and comic books. Watch as many bad American TV sitcoms as you can. Memorize the scripts for as ... Read the newsgroups. Visit the chatrooms. Get right into the gutter of American speech and it will cleanse your soul." And your mind, of anything resembling a language governed by simply understood rules. And get right down in the same gutter, and it will dirty your mind and your soul. If garbage is what you want. Anonymous American English, Speaking, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States, Speeches, American, Languages

	Einde O'Callaghan    623410 Wed, 20 Apr 05 10:40 PM "wrote on 14 Apr 2005: Read novels and comic books. ... gutter of American speech and it will cleanse your soul." "And your mind, of anything resembling a language governed by simply understood rules. And get right down in the same gutter, and it will dirty your mind and your soul. If garbage is what you want." The point is that language as such isn't governed by simply understood rules. All grammar for living languages is only an approximation of the language as it is used by native speakers - even by the so-called educated native speakers of the standard form of the language. The connection between language and logic is tentative, to say the least. Words move from slang and jargon into the main stream of the English language all the time. It's actually one of the joys of the language, even if some of the terms may not appeal to some of us. And the OP did specifically ask to about where to find American English slang. Regards, Einde O'Callaghan Einde O'Callaghan Regards, American English, Speaking, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States, Speeches, American, Languages

	Peter T. Daniels    623413 Wed, 20 Apr 05 11:01 PM "wrote on 14 Apr 2005: Read novels and comic books. ... gutter of American speech and it will cleanse your soul." "And your mind, of anything resembling a language governed by simply understood rules. And get right down in the same gutter, and it will dirty your mind and your soul. If garbage is what you want." Presumably you're an English teacher. Kindly note that you're crossposting to a linguistics group. Peter T. Daniels (Email Removed) Peter T. Daniels Speaking, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States, Speeches, American, Languages