During our entire academic life, we all are taught standard English. This is okay if we want people to understand us but we don't really get, in schools, the English people use in their daily life. This post is dedicated to the English teachers don't teach us and, probably, the most spoken in an English society.
How can we get these sayings and expressions? From my humble opinion, the best way to get them is to enjoy a society where the language stablished is English. This blog is about American English and so will be the examples I will post here. I got them from an linguistic ex-change I met at the university so I think they will work.
A good example of this colloquial American English is "duh". Americans use it all the time and it is like saying "yeah" or "of course". for example, imagine someone asks you "-Wanna hang out tonite?". If it is obvious that you do want to, you would just say "-Duh!".
They also say "the bun is in the oven". A bun is a type of bread and it is a methaphoric way to say that a woman is pregnant. There are another ways to say it like "She is knocked up" and "she is expecting".
Also, there are expressions that are used specially by young people. for example, they say " What's up?" and "What's new?" just to say "how are you?". It is very popular and it is used a lot in the street with friends, relatives or, as I said before, young people. This gruop of society, also say "he/she is wasted" or "he/she is trasked" to mean that someone is drunk.
There are more sayings and colloqial terms I will post soon. I hope you liked it.
By: Francisco Manuel Alfonso Sámchez.
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