I don’t think I’ve heard “cringy” being used very much. “cringe-worthy” is a good example to mention. Great job with your videos. I got to your channel when searching for videos on the schwa :)
Many times those other people don't feel shame at all, we just think that they should feel ashamed. We just project our feelings onto them, we feel ashamed instead of them. Conclusion: it's a silly feeling :)
Thank you so much for sharing this video. It was very informative. You are the best language researcher. You have studied English so deeply that sometimes it is quite difficult to understand some points. I know it depends on the level of language proficiency. I'm still learning, and I have to say that your pronunciation is excellent. Is this the result of hard work with pronunciation or have you been using the language since childhood?
I don't think that there's anything massively terrible about contracting 'cringe-worthy' to just 'cringe'. I'm quite uptight about the use of the apostrophe, the comma and the capital letter. But ultimately, I suppose the most important thing is making a clear point. Eg: outside a greengrocer's, a sign saying "potatoes' 50p a pound" has really ugly and incorrect punctuation, but I still know that the spuds are fifty pence for a pound. Dunno what I'm waffling about; I'm only commenting on this post because I think you're absolutely beautiful.
for the straws, of the coffee: we drink, Nescafe Cold shaken coffee (Frappe as we call it), Freddo Espresso and Freddo Cappuccino, which are own creations of coffee. If you do not want this sort of cream, to your nose or lips, being like a monster from Van Helsing film, you drink it with straw. No offense, we have 50 varieties of certain types of coffee.
Sorry, but ain't comes from the Cockneys section of England, and has really nothing to do with Black people other than in general. 1706, originally a contraction of am not, and considered proper as such until in early 19c. it began to be also a generic contraction of are not, is not, has not, etc. This was popularized in representations of London cockney dialect in Dickens, etc., which led to the word being banished entirely from correct English. Bartlett ("Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848) reports that hain't for "have not" is "A contraction much used in common conversation in New England."
That's ridiculous. What's wrong with 'Sex and the City'? How do you mean 'It's not politically correct?' This is art. A R T. Art can't be politically correct or not politically correct. The only role of art is to provoke...And 'S&C' is definitely able to do that... whether you like it or not. BTW... I've recently watched pretty cool thing called 'The wife'(2017)... I believe you'll like it. Take care of yourself.
