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Sunsneezer Started conversation Apr 7, 2003
heyhey!
Your entry is overall very nice and friendly. But I would like to point out a few things I found you may find interesting to change...
'verry'
'The last thing I'm thinking to say now about myself' could be changed to downright 'finally'.
also: 'you volontary choose' (not chose)
'lost person' looks to me like french. It may be replaced by something else. Like, err... 'confused' or something.
and may I suggest: 'make dramatic topic switches in the middle conversations' (instead of 'frequently change the subject of a conversation ') to better reflect that nasty habit you have in a slightly better formulated way.
Don't hesitate to correct my own mistakes too, we are there to learn.
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Ranzelbuth Posted Apr 7, 2003
Thanks for your honesty
I juste changed the few details you told me, in some way.
So, as we say in Québec (do not ever say french canada): KIN!
I don't know anything similar in english to translate this, don't know how to write it like it is supposed to sound either.
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Sunsneezer Posted Apr 7, 2003
Pronouncing a good Quebecquer's 'kin' in english is simple, try to say the name 'Cain' without pronouncing the very sound 'n' at the end.
Could be translated by:
'Here you go!'
'Take that!'
'Here you are!'
'In your face!'
'What a surprise!(often said "kin, kin, kin!")'.
A good 'kin' is nothing without the proper emphasis or tone. Those are sadly misunderstandable and of unreacheable complexity, so they can't be expressed through text.
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Ranzelbuth Posted Apr 7, 2003
Yep, Cain without the very "n" sounds pretty like "kin!"
But I still think that no one of the expressions you said is really the same.
"Kin" is a shorten version of a simple word with an other spelling and we nearly forget the original word when we say: "Kin!!"
And this "sound" for me can mean "done" as well as "in your f... face" or "got you"...
Finally, as we said before, we are here to learn... so here is the best web dictionnary I found: yourdictionary.com
Enjoy!
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