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Trash Talking

Trash Talking

Date: May 31 2007

Topic: Conversational English

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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Comments

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fatima sh

fatima sh

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

hey morteza!


 

10:53 AM Dec 31 2011 |

morteza68

morteza68

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

THANKS

07:25 AM Dec 26 2010 |

kimichan

kimichan

Japan

I want to watch major game.

05:10 AM Dec 15 2010 |

foz12

foz12

Saudi Arabia

trash talking

I like the lesson : )

05:35 PM Jul 27 2010 |

adi_007

adi_007

India

nice one

01:54 AM Jul 23 2010 |

wishtolearn

El Salvador

it was one of the good ones … i wish someone would post a lesson about the words an american usually use when they want to date or sleep with a female. i mean, how do you convince that girl to come into one with you?

09:01 PM Jun 12 2010 |

zirtack

zirtack

Brazil

It was a very good subject.

12:20 PM Mar 04 2008 |

ANDERS

ANDERS

Russian Federation

REALLLLLYYY!!!!!  IT~S NICE@!

06:02 AM Feb 18 2008 |

sherif

sherif

Algeria

very usefull lesson.

useful words , thanks

03:31 PM Sep 02 2007 |

devendra

India

I have got very much from this lesson.It is very nice. I have not understood some words. So please there should be some facility to find meaning of some words that are in lesson & you have not given the meaning. like dictionary

09:37 AM Aug 30 2007 |

iceomari

Sudan

v.good Iunderstand easy

10:04 AM Aug 27 2007 |

AngelEyes

AngelEyes

Bahrain

thanx bro the this

let us see more from u

good luck for all

12:17 PM Aug 26 2007 |

nard

nard

Thailand

in my country prople playing sport,

04:18 AM Aug 26 2007 |

SILVER CASIOS

Syrian Arab Republic

very goood i liked it so muchh..go on and god bless ya

08:11 PM Aug 25 2007 |

Jamshaid Ali Khan

Pakistan

not a good way to express your feelings towards your favouring side.

 

 

 

05:34 PM Aug 25 2007 |

lady2006

Saudi Arabia

hello every body

 

09:24 PM Aug 24 2007 |

lady2006

Saudi Arabia

hello every body

 

09:24 PM Aug 24 2007 |

daoselva

daoselva

Morocco

it's a very useful lesson, very simple it good. but "spit"  This word is rarely used thus it is necessary the added in the vocabulary

09:39 PM Aug 23 2007 |

martingzh

China

    Thank you for giving us such a good and useful article! It is authentic and easy to understand having some colorful sentences and words.'heated and dish out' are good words for me!     

     It is about how they do when the audience watching the baseball games.Of course saying trash talk is sounding not impolite,but I think it is no mind,everyhting they do is just for cheering on their home team ,not intentionally offend guests. Remember it is just a game!

      Anyway I learn a lot from you job.Thanks again!

    Great job! Keep doing!  

09:27 AM Aug 23 2007 |

vivi bulat

Romania

Very good your oppinions good boy!

01:00 AM Aug 23 2007 |

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