A Russian text book’s idea of American slang (warning – NSFW language)

May 29, 2010 at 9:20 am · Filed under languages, vocabulary · Posted by Matthew Fallon

I recently came across this online – taken straight from a section of a Russian text book discussing the American slang term “son of a gun”:

Imagine if we really did talk like this! The third example in particular made me laugh out loud: “This is a really son of a gun job”. Huh?

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