Wednesday, September 16, 2009
I translate Ebonics and describe Twinkies
The International club here is called KIMCHI. From what I gather, it's a way for everyone to work on their English and internationality-ness. or whatever. Last week some of the Australian students interviewed students to see if they spoke English well enough to be in the club. They meet every Wednesday to debate different issues. Anywho, I showed up this week along with two other Australian boys. They split the three of us up into separate groups of five or six. This week we were talking about a Korean-American rapper who grew up in New Jersey and became famous in Korea. Apparently he said some controversial things about Korea to a friend in his Myspace and had to fly back to America. So I was reading some of the text that he had posted and asked the students if they understood what he was saying? They didn't, so I had to explain some of the following text, "wassup foo. watchu bin doing...still having pissy fits boutchur rapping? korea is gay...I hate Koreans, I wanna come back like no other...friggin a n e ways yea..." well, you get the picture. One girl-"What is friggin?" I also explained "whack" "illest rapper" "dass pretty dope" It's a good thing that I have so much smack talk stored up yo and knowledge of American slang. The article also talked about anther slang word for "Asians in the U.S. who make great efforts to assimilate the mainstream American society." Otherwise known as a "Twinkie" (yellow on the outside, white on the inside...get it? also see: "banana"). "What is Twinkie?"
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hahahahahahaha! That is probably the best thing I have EVER heard! Wow, I am still laughing... "what is twinkie?" hahahahahaha. love you sis!
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