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« on: December 20, 2013, 09:51:33 PM »

10. Adorable terms and phrases
While you'll be hard-pressed to find a real-life, toque-wearin' local who's ever called someone a "hoser" or told them to "take off," Canadians do call their two-dollar coins "Toonies," cases of beer "two-fours" and napkins "serviettes" in polite company.
Nowhere else will you be called a "rink rat" for loitering at ice arenas.
Or be "given the gears" if you do something dumb.
Or get asked, "What do you pay for hydro?"
Or alerted that "your gitch is showing" if your belt is too loose.
Enough said.
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« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2013, 10:03:04 PM »

Dude, seriously?  This is fairly useless stuff you're teaching them.

Anyway, it says that gringo stereotypes of Canucks are a bit off base (hoser?  eh?  take off?) and mostly they came from that Doug McKenzie fad, but lots of their slang is accurately displayed. 

i.e., it means that all the stuff after "Canadians do call..." is accurate.  All the stuff before it is a bit overhyped.

But really, my advice is that if you're teaching English to Chinese people, consider using a different textbook than the one you're using.
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« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2013, 12:41:33 AM »

This is unrelated, but.. Merry Christmas, v0031 Wink

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
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« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2013, 07:08:05 AM »

That's not from a text book, it's from a recent tourism article on CNN featuring Canada.
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« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2013, 09:17:02 AM »

I am not teaching with this, but translate into Chinese for magazines.
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