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Peace Corps Volunteer Panopticon writes: Signs your English Textbooks May Be Out of Date
"Slang You Should Know" includes terms like 'radical' and 'neato.'
Peace Corps Volunteer Panopticon writes: Signs your English Textbooks May Be Out of Date
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Signs your English Textbooks May Be Out of Date
Caption: Taken during a workshop with roma children, Macedonia, June 2006 by wietse?. Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
1. They talk about "up and coming" new model.... Kimora Lee.
2. They reference the "brilliant horror movie 'The Blair Witch Project.'"
3. Exercises consist of practicing phrases like "Jeans are unfashionable, I prefer to wear jumpers."
4. The chapter on "Style" in its totality makes you cringe.
5. "Slang You Should Know" includes terms like 'radical' and 'neato.'
Long story short, if you ever meet a Macedonian who says your jumper is radical..... blame it on Opportunities: Intermediate.
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Headlines: February, 2009; Peace Corps Macedonia; Directory of Macedonia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Macedonia RPCVs; Humor
When this story was posted in February 2009, this was on the front page of PCOL:
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