Arnoldo is an adult student of mine who gets private English lessons at his house once a week. Most of his English comes from movies, so his vocabulary is an eclectic mix of American idioms and swear words. One of his favorite phrases is “Is a shit,” meaning it’s bad or of poor quality. Arnoldo uses this phrase often and applies it to a variety of topics. Even though it’s not 100% correct, I find it so funny that I have a hard time correcting him. The following is what I’ve come to call Arnoldo’s Shit List.
Things that “are a shit!”
Privatized health care
Cuban food
PC products
Family in general, in-laws specifically
Mexican restaurants in Tenerife
Most popular American movies, particularly action movies
McDonalds
Spanish bureaucracy
People who don’t say proper goodbyes when moving
The list goes on, but those are the ones that immediately come to mind. Cracks me up every time.
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