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How to Speak American 101
Here's a classic example of how not to.
Last night I was hanging out with a group of Americans and, feeling hungry, decided to express myself, eloquently as always of course. So I told them, "I'm keen for a feed ay."
It didn't take me long to realise I may as well have been speaking Japanese. There were three things wrong with the sentence: Americans don't say "I'm keen for," they don't call something to eat "a feed" and they don't say "ay." I think they were smart enough to work out what I meant in the end, but in future I think I'll stick to, "Shall we go get something to eat?"
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