We would first like to say welcome to the United States. As you are still learning the English language we would like to help by shaking things up with a slang term. Like the language you speak is dependent upon what part of the World you are from, American slang can vary by region in the United States. Today, we have chosen one of the most popular slang terms found in America; “wasted”. The word “wasted” in general means an extreme impairment. Like all slang terms, the definition of “wasted” is derived from the meaning of many other words. When a person uses the term wasted, they are referring to them self or someone else who is either: drunk, stoned, or high.
Not all impairments suffered mean that you are “wasted”. A person could be drunk but not considered “wasted”. A “wasted” person who drank too much alcohol and is considered drunk would be found stumbling, unable to see, and getting sick. An example of using this term would be the following; “My friend is wasted! He is so drunk he can’t even stand up!” Somebody would be visibly drunk and unable to control their actions in order to be considered “wasted”.
Being “wasted” does not mean that you are unable to conduct yourself in the most basic manner. One measure of being “wasted” would be that you are not cognizant of your surroundings. You sit, stare, and don’t move. When a person exhibits these symptoms, they most likely under the influence of the drug marijuana. When a person has smoked marijuana they are considered stoned, or high. If they have smoked a large amount of the drug marijuana, you would than consider them to be “wasted”. An example of using “wasted” in this circumstance would be, “My friend smoked so much marijuana he is wasted. All he wants to do today is stare at the television.” Someone would be visibly tuned out and unresponsive in order to be considered “wasted”.
In the English language, the term “wasted” is a heavily used word. There are so many instances when people have consumed too much alcohol or smoked too much marijuana. The team “wasted” is another way to express the level that a person has taken their recreational drinking or drugs. When someone goes too far in their pursuit of fun, they are probably “wasted”.
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I like the way this group explain the real meaning of this slang. An average new immigrant, I believe will be able to decode the way we use this word in our context. wasted as we all know connotes drunkenness. And this group did nothing but fine tuning the meaning to new Americas.
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John Nwabugwu.
I really like how this group made it so that this would be extremely easy for an immigrant to understand.
ReplyDeleteI would however, like to point out that "wasted" is generally just used to talk about alcohol. Sometimes other drugs, but people will assume you were drunk if you used the term.
Also, you can't be wasted on marijuana because it doesn't contain the lethal toxins that other drugs do, and that's what being "wasted" is all about. You would instead be "high", "stoned", "blazed", or my personal favourite "blitzed".
This is a common error though, and it's really bad that I knew this.
-Mallory
I really liked the way that this group explained "wasted" with giving a lot of different examples with being to drunk or to high. Nice Job Group!
ReplyDelete-Shivana Maharaj
Great job guys! I think you explained the definition of "wasted" very well. Not only did you give examples of when the "wasted" might be used, you actually used it in a sentence so it could be more easily understood. This would probably be most helpful for someone just learning our language.
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I think that you definitely understand the connotative meanings of "wasted." I do wish, though, that you had talked about some of the more literal ones, such as "BP wasted oil in the environment," or "waste paper," etc.
ReplyDeleteI think your explanation was detail an simple for somebody from another country to understand. I like how you used the word in examples to make it more graphic. However, I think you could have explain a little bit more about the origins of the word “wasted”.
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