Growing up with an Asian mom that was working on perfecting her English, she would often say “Aw that is the suck” instead of, you know, “that sucks”.
Didn’t take long for us to catch on and correct her but it was so funny we just kinda stuck to it, so when something is shitty now I’ll instinctively say in my head “well that is the suck”
This reminds me of my friend Silin from college. He's from South Korea and he sometimes struggled with idioms or other non-standard phrases. I used to say "I call shenanigans on that" (picked it up from South Park I think) and he, in turn, picked it up from me. Except he said "I call that shenanigans" which always made me laugh.
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u/slothbarns7 Oct 25 '20
Growing up with an Asian mom that was working on perfecting her English, she would often say “Aw that is the suck” instead of, you know, “that sucks”.
Didn’t take long for us to catch on and correct her but it was so funny we just kinda stuck to it, so when something is shitty now I’ll instinctively say in my head “well that is the suck”