English, baby!

Trash Talking

Date: May 31 2007

Author: phoogoo

Lesson

My brother and I went to the Yankees vs. Red Sox game last Tuesday. I have to say, there was a lot of trash talking at the game. I heard a lot of Yankee fans shout things like "Red Sox suck," or "go home Red Sox fans." Even though there were not nearly as many Red Sox fans they could certainly dish it out as well. It helped that the Red Sox crushed the Yankees 7-3. We even saw one fan spit on another fan. If it were the Mariners or the A's or something it might not have been so heated. But the Yankees and Red Sox have a rivalry that goes back a long way.

Vocabulary

Yankees (n.)- One of New Yorks professional baseball teams located in the Bronx

Red Sox (n.) - Boston's baseball team

trash talk (n.) - when someone yells insults at another person

trash talk (v.) - yelling insults

suck (v. slang) - to be bad, not cool, not good - it's a pretty strong word

dish out (v.) - to attack

crush (v.) - to beat someone by a wide margin or by a lot of points

Mariners (n. ) - Seattle's baseball team

A's (n.) - Oakland's baseball team

heated (adj.) - angry or confrontational

rivalry (n.) - when one person or team has a long time competition with another one, sometimes to the point where each one hates the other.

Picture

These were our seats in Yankee Stadium

Discussion

Is it common in other cultures for people to trash talk? What do people trash talk about? Sports? Politics? Relationships? Fashion? Is it serious or just a friendly game?

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Christina.X

China

i love this lesson very much. erery day the fist thing i do after opening computeri is watch English baby! it's very useful to improve our english.i wish this item go better in the future.

chunyanwen

China

I don't know why you were put so many your comments on the tips, just press your enter once only. thank you!

H-cynthia

China

it is too bad ,

Rajan3

India

Mark up lesson The known words with deiffrerent meaning. when i was studying spoken English, my mam says that English should be possesive whenever we speak or write but, here the sutuation was very bad.

mubarak(keke)

Yemen

good lesson

sherif

Algeria

very useful lesson , i am sure that i can remember for ever , new words that you introduced.
five stars and more , if evaluate the add value of your good system
in introducing new words gradually

Harsh_09

India

It is very nice nd we can learn a lot of things .

tintin58

Philippines

nice!!.... the term "dish out " for me really sounds new to my ear… and now, i know what it means…

sugarcane_girl

Saudi Arabia

cool i hope we learnalot here

naazia

Pakistan

nice lesson

JROUSHI

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

I thing this lesson wonderful for someone want learn about this game.

zaidi

Somalia

its very good lesson i love it but are these slangs spoken all over the world? i doubt that because sometimes where i speak slangs i learnt from here it gives some of my friends very hectic time i mean they normaly don't understand is it good for me to speak slangs while people cannot understand me??????

please help me

mmaa

Yemen

Yes

joyly

Thailand

cool

priya11

India

simply superb.this site is very nice.

eugeneakpo

Ghana

i like the conversation its good for me i dont know what people will say about it but as for me at least i have now known of any of the basketball teams in the US and also new vocabs like tash tlk and heated.thank you

eugeneakpo

Ghana

i really enjoy the conversation and also the vocabs but it was not enough for me to improve on my english speaking ability.thank you

subhashaarya@gmail.com

India

its a very nice lesson in this small lesson i have learned nearly eight voc and this game is very tuff game those who had good skill they midht have chance to win but one thing not only skill they need good support also but these slag words are frquently used in game these are all part of the game if people use slang words in game it will tell that both team has good sporting spirit and that slang words should be healthy and friendly

any way this is very good experience writing a comment on the lesson thaks a lot for the writer