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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
If I gather correctly we are granted to vent or to rant.
A vent can be as pleasing as a summer breeze. But a rant? Hey! It can only be done by a New Yorker, a Québécois or a Portuguese sailor... 
You gotta learn Portuguese PB! |
Strine's good, but has a problem of being English you can't understand or find a school for the teaching of. It generally loses a lot of the vowel sounds, except for those times it doesn't and instead loses a lot of the consonants. It speaks a lot through the nose, has a lot of sentences ending in rising inflections, and every sentence is really just one, long strung-together word, and those words can frequently mean the exact opposite of what they say, depending on context (which can extend to incidents from 25 years ago or your non-speaking relationship with your fifth cousin from the Adelaide hills or just how many beers you've had this morning). It's nigh on impossible to put in written form.
Cheers,
Marc (writing in an unfamiliar language called English)