Not disputing your point at all. Anyway:
Doing a simple google search brings up Wikipedia and the Urban Dictionary as results #1 and #2. Both explain it pretty well. And there's a ton of lists that explain usenet/internet acronyms like OP.
Depends on how much available time you've. Since 4 Sep 2004 (so 10+ years), I'm working non stop, everyday, including weekends and holidays for at least 14 hours a day. So, I don't think that I've even a free minute for such actions.
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On the other hand, I always saw sites such as this as a pretty entertaining way to improve my everyday english, pick up idioms and so on.
That's very good and I was doing it when I was 20.... 30.... 40... even 50. But now being on my 59 there is no courage. And what you read now is what I learned alone. Reading dictionaries. Yes dictionaries. At 1960-1970 being a child of a 5 children family no money for Foreign language Institutes. So I count as miracle even the fact that I can talk and understand the basics. But really no power for learning more, anything, not just English.
Well, I really think it is not that much "slang" or acronyms used around here that it would really impact the time budget. But I really salute your learning english as an autodidact - you speak/write it really well. At least if someone who picked it up at school and original version videos as third language can tell...
But I really salute your learning english as an autodidact - you speak/write it really well....
Really thank you for what you wrote. And is not only English. I learned coding on the same way. Reading books. And it was much more difficult as the only books available (talking for 1984) were in English so I had by hand my English dictionary and first I had to try to understand what the phrase means in Greek and then try to test the examples.
Dammit money
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"Wir lernen Deutsch mit Hilfe von Bilde und Saitplatten und lernen..." (or something like this
I was 12yo when for first time I tried to learn Deutsch. Visafone or Dictafone was the name of that method. Pitty that I had nobody to help me and Deutsch is a difficult language even if in Grammar looks like Greek.
I spent 9 months in Germany in 1986 and learned NONE of the language, but the girl I hooked up with who spoke little English was speaking fluently in 4 months. Of course, my English is the Redneck dialect
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