Need an Explanation Please !!!!

YukonJack

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"Did you get those Natives names, I'ld like to send them well wishes.."

Too late, CDNBear! All are dead. Most of alcohol poisoning some of AIDS.
Some of both.
 

charlesbb

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^^ I'm not pretty new to Canada . I've been here for 3 years actually . Just can't become a Canadian anyway .
I'm now a junior student of UBC .
 

Twila

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Charlesbb, what is your native tongue?

YukonJack, what is your native tongue? I'm so sorry you went through what you did. I've a friend who had problems because of her accent as well. She was teased mercilessly because of it. She, too, worked very hard to be rid of it.

My grandmother had many issues with being an immigrant. Mind you, she moved here in the 1930's and Canada was not so nice to "foreigners" My grandmother, grandfather, and my uncles had to work very hard to be "good Canadians" and to be perceived as good Canadians. They were the best Canadians, imho, since they choose Canada and weren't simply born here. They made a choice. Many of us who are born here take pride in a nationality that we had no hand in choosing.

I love hearing accents. For me, it helps me be a more active listener, rather then a passive listener. For me hearing someone with an accent opens the door to conversation.
 

AnnaG

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charlesbb, whatever you do, learn to speak English without an accent.

When I was a brand new immigrant to Canada, I was robbed, beaten up and left for dead on the Geraldton (Ont) railroad station by some ever-so-loving Natives.

So, be careful of not just what you say, but how you say it.

BTW, having studied German, Latin and Russian, I found English the easiest to learn.
?? I love Italian accents. French ones, Latin/Spanish, Slavic, Kiwi/Aussie ones, too.
 

Kreskin

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Looking 'camp'? Never heard it before. Maybe if someone looks camp they look like they've worked in the bush for too long.
 

lone wolf

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In the bush near Sudbury

I posted that too. It won't open properly. The link is deliberately broken.

Pick on the Did you mean ... but here's what it says:

Camp is an aesthetic sensibility wherein something is appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value. The concept is closely related to kitsch, and campy things are described as being "campy" or "cheesy". When the usage appeared, in 1909, it denoted: ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, and effeminate behaviour, and, by the middle of the 1970s, the definition comprised: banality, artifice, mediocrity, and ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal.[1] American writer Susan Sontag's essay “Notes on 'Camp'” (1964) emphasised its key elements as: artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and ‘shocking’ excess. Camp as an aesthetic has been popular from the 1960s to the present, and arguably peaked in the decades of the 1970s, 1980s, and to some extent the 1990s as well.
 

AnnaG

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ah, so you have that beautiful accent that makes womens clothes fall off. lol.
You're one of those? 8O

I just like accents and Italian accents are one of the neater ones. lol Oirish ones are awesome, too. Me Mum has one.
 

AnnaG

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Last time I heard this much debate over a weird use of the word "campy" was in the Partridge Family...


...Susan Dey was hot!
Not bad, I agree:



Still pretty, too, but then who knows about those cosmetic surgeons and stuff:
 

AnnaG

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I posted that too. It won't open properly. The link is deliberately broken.

Pick on the Did you mean ... but here's what it says:

Camp is an aesthetic sensibility wherein something is appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value. The concept is closely related to kitsch, and campy things are described as being "campy" or "cheesy". When the usage appeared, in 1909, it denoted: ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, and effeminate behaviour, and, by the middle of the 1970s, the definition comprised: banality, artifice, mediocrity, and ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal.[1] American writer Susan Sontag's essay “Notes on 'Camp'” (1964) emphasised its key elements as: artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and ‘shocking’ excess. Camp as an aesthetic has been popular from the 1960s to the present, and arguably peaked in the decades of the 1970s, 1980s, and to some extent the 1990s as well.
The past few years, though, it implies effemininity. :) But only in the unofficial (slang) sense.