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datsunking1
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Message 33 of 94

14 January 2010 at 10:45pm | IP Logged

I've never heard any of those actually.

We use:

slammed, bombed, blitzed, = drunk "I got [ ] at that party"

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stephen_g
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Message 34 of 94

15 January 2010 at 1:40am | IP Logged

Paskwc wrote:

I'm from Toronto (around College and Spadina) and I haven't heard anyone
use "reach" or
"moss" in the way you've used them. I've heard "cheesed" used as described, but not very
often.

I'm from Mississauga and I've heard both. "Reach" is much more common than "moss",
though. The latter is constrained to a specific subculture.
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wokkabomb
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Message 35 of 94

15 January 2010 at 8:26am | IP Logged

hcholm wrote:

but there's
no reason to think that English is or will be any simpler or more complex than other
languages.

Until you study Arabic.
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wokkabomb
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Message 36 of 94

15 January 2010 at 8:28am | IP Logged

Cainntear wrote:

Interesting... here you can be "cheesed off", not "cheesed", but then in less polite circles
we're "p¡ssed off" when North Americans are just "p¡ssed". (Which in the UK means
"drunk"!)

We use pissed or pissed off, either one works :P
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Captain Haddock
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Message 37 of 94

15 January 2010 at 9:39am | IP Logged

Where I'm from (Western Canada), both "cheesed" and "cheesed off" mean angry, whereas "pissed off" is angry and
"pissed" is drunk (but we usually say "pissed drunk" instead).
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Astrophel
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Message 38 of 94

19 January 2010 at 5:23pm | IP Logged

Here in California we usually say "wasted" for drunk, but "hammered" and "sloshed" are used sometimes too. Is this the same as anywhere else?

Edited by Astrophel on 19 January 2010 at 5:25pm
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Paskwc
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Message 39 of 94

19 January 2010 at 5:54pm | IP Logged

Astrophel wrote:

Here in California we usually say "wasted" for drunk, but "hammered"
and "sloshed" are used sometimes too. Is this the same as anywhere else?

Wasted: Yes
Hammered: Yes
Sloshed: I don't think so
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crackpot
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Message 40 of 94

20 March 2010 at 3:05am | IP Logged

Not when they are speaking amongst themselves!

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