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| NYC_Trini_Span Diglot Groupie United States Joined 7224 days ago 60 posts - 66 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 9 of 13 25 December 2010 at 9:40am | IP Logged | ||
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When I speak in Spanish I use different words to mean "whatever" although right before I moved out the dominican repub in 08 "wateba" or "watever" were added to local slang.
Your shirt is ugly. Whatever! ( Ay POR favor) or (si si claro) or even (lo que tu digas!) Or the soft "we won't agree" whatever: 'ta bien... Or maybe "dejalo ahi" although that itslef has a few meanings. Here in NYC the kids even use "yeah aight" (*alright) for whatever 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 10 of 13 25 December 2010 at 10:20am | IP Logged | ||
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| TerryW Senior Member United States Joined 6358 days ago 370 posts - 783 votes Speaks: English* | Message 11 of 13 25 December 2010 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Right after I posted this topic, I found myself using another similar one later that day, and a couple times since...
"Yeah, well." with the intonation higher on the "well." Similar to "whatever," kind of like saying so what, I don't care if I goofed, or if you don't like it, or . . . whatever. ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5554 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 12 of 13 26 December 2010 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Finnish you can say "ihan sama" (literally "quite the same") and it means more or less what "whatever" means in English. It's a phrase with a connotation of "oh okay, but I don't give a shit".
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5694 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 13 of 13 27 December 2010 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is a bit unrelated to the thread, but I have to share it anyway. My father and I are obsessed with what we call "mindless phrases" in English. When you really focus on them, they're so stupid – they're basically placeholders, sentences which don't really SAY anything at all.
Here are the ones we've come up with so far: "If it's not one thing, it's another." - (Usually used when you're feeling overwhelmed by mildly annoying events.) "Today has just been one thing after another." - (A variation on the previous phrase, even more hilarious in its obviousness.) "It's just been one of those days." - (What you might say at the end of a day filled with events which caused the pronouncement of the previous two phrases.) "Well, what are you gonna do?" - (Note: this is a rhetorical question, not an actual question! When someone complains that their electricity went out and all the messages on the answering machine got deleted, you might sadly and sympathetically respond with this rhetorical question, while understandingly shaking your head.) "You're telling me!" - (This basically means "I sure know what you're talking about!" and is said in a faux-surprised tone, often coupled with an ironic half-smile and raised eyebrows. What you might not gather from this description of the facial expression is that this sentence is actually a bonding-phrase, used to express sympathy and understanding of the other person's situation.) "Of course it was in the LAST place I looked..." - (This one is my favorite. Think about it for a minute: when you've been searching for a misplaced object, has it ever been in the NEXT-to-last place you looked? No, for obvious reasons! However, since having this epiphany, my dad and I have made a solemn resolution to, whenever we find what we were searching for, keep on looking for it in a few more places, just so we can later tell people with a frustrated tone: "Of course it was in the third-to-last place I looked!") 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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