Experience

Experience

Studied under a renowned photographer.

‘A little stiff’: a little rigid (colloquial).

‘For starters’: to begin.

‘Fucking inhibited’: very quiet (vulgar).

‘Playboy’: Playboy is an American men’s magazine for adults.

‘Centerfold’: a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature. (US)

‘Pissed’: angry (US, slang)

In general, this is a vulgar text because we can find words or expressions such as ‘stiff’, ‘fucking inhibited’ or ‘jerked off’.

Assisted photographer taking photos for a major magazine.

‘Pick ‘em’: pick them (Abbreviation)

‘Huh’: used to express contempt, surprise, etc. (Interjection)

‘Penthouse’: a men’s magazine for adults.

Phrasal verbs: ‘came out’ or ‘lie down’ .

Helped spread fine art to lower-income households.

‘Minivan’: a little van.

‘Flipping’: look through a book or other written material.

Phrasal verbs: ‘pick me up’, ‘got out’, ‘grew up’ ‘shave down’, ‘get it over with’, or ‘picked out’.

Delivered orders to the trading pits.

‘Pit’: spot or place.

‘S&P order’: Standard and Poor order.

‘Clerk’ (US)

Earned a promotion to a position in the British Pound pit.

‘Cunt’ (Vulgar Word)

‘Arb’: arbitrary (Abbreviation)

‘Fucking’ (Vulgar word)

‘Gimme’ (Give me)

This text presents a vulgar and colloquial register because of the presence of some inappropriate vulgar and colloquial expressions such as: cunt, fucking, arb and gimme.

Saved millions of dollars by performing well under pressure.

No one fucking knows (Vulgar)

‘Buy ’em’: buy them.

‘You’re gonna’’: You are going to.

We can find vulgar or colloquial expressions such as ‘no one fucking knows’, ‘buy ‘em’ or ‘you’re gonna’.

Assisted Mr. Ford with everything from dining to laundry.

‘Crusty’: bad-tempered.

This text has been written in a standard way, without excessive technical terms and colloquial terms.

Conceived of strategy to reorganize daily scheduling process.

‘Crawled out of my bed’: moved slowly of my bed.

‘Sonic Youth’: an American alternative rock band formed in New York City in 1981.

‘Tossed’: threw.

Yen: Japanese coin.

In this text we can find many compound words such as: ‘crawled out’. ‘woke up’, ‘got up’, ‘took off’, ‘cheek up’, ‘picked up’… Thus, this is a colloquial written text.

We can the expression ‘Okay’ repeated twice.

Oversaw the redecoration of a sixteen-room home.

T.S. Elliot: Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965), was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic.

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