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Originally Posted by boxcorner
Thank you. It's not the first time that a non-native English speaker has taught me a thing or two about my mother tongue.
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Keep in mind that it's entirely possible that what I was taught is... obsolete.
Outside of England, the so-called English Courses are actually "Courses of Academic English Language used by Shakespeare, Blake and other authors who died at least one century ago".
You know, in my textbook "ace!" was still described as an exclamation widely used by young people to mean "wonderful, amazing, stupifying".
When I used it in a real-world dialog, the other person said to me "dude, that's SO 1970!"