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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 62855" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Eleanor, you said, "To get the true American effect (California, to be more specific), he would need to sigh impatiently, roll his eyes, and say "WhatEVER" and then flounce off. (It works best, though, for 13 year old girls with long blonde hair so they can toss their hair as they flounce off...)"</p><p></p><p>easy child 2/difficult child 2 can do it very well, but it's red hair she tosses instead. It's the actress in her, I suspect, but she only ever does it as satire. I mean, we see the "WhatEVER" thing on TV - various TV shows, movies etc but apart from young kids trying to emulate these, it really is meaningless in our culture down under.</p><p></p><p>We have OTHER words, I'm sad to say, usually telling you where to go and what to do with yourself when you get there. Much more graphic, far less ambiguous. Thankfully, difficult child 3 hasn't tried these with me either. Plus, we have ingrained into us the standard responses which are either, "I've been and I liked it - saw you were there ahead of me," to "shall we try that again, from the top?" (often accompanied with a clutch round the throat by the parent).</p><p></p><p>Aren't teens wonderful?</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 62855, member: 1991"] Eleanor, you said, "To get the true American effect (California, to be more specific), he would need to sigh impatiently, roll his eyes, and say "WhatEVER" and then flounce off. (It works best, though, for 13 year old girls with long blonde hair so they can toss their hair as they flounce off...)" easy child 2/difficult child 2 can do it very well, but it's red hair she tosses instead. It's the actress in her, I suspect, but she only ever does it as satire. I mean, we see the "WhatEVER" thing on TV - various TV shows, movies etc but apart from young kids trying to emulate these, it really is meaningless in our culture down under. We have OTHER words, I'm sad to say, usually telling you where to go and what to do with yourself when you get there. Much more graphic, far less ambiguous. Thankfully, difficult child 3 hasn't tried these with me either. Plus, we have ingrained into us the standard responses which are either, "I've been and I liked it - saw you were there ahead of me," to "shall we try that again, from the top?" (often accompanied with a clutch round the throat by the parent). Aren't teens wonderful? Marg [/QUOTE]
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