So, for both the learned and the unlearned, here are some of the words, phrases, and lingo you’ll need to know if you want to converse with someone speaking Shred. I’m gonna have a pretty squirrelly time tryin’ to land this one with any steez, cuz I’m riding fakie when it comes to languages.”Īfter class, my professor pointed out what should have been obvious to me: I was fluent in at least one foreign language. So, when given this playwriting assignment, I exclaimed: “Ouch, what a harsh drop-in. Now, I was too busy ripping pow and daydreaming about gnarly jib lines in high school to absorb the lessons of my stale Dutch Spanish teacher. In a college playwriting class, I was given the assignment to write a multilingual play where the characters spoke at least two different languages.
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