Mcdonalds: Warning!

Hey all. Ok I was the last person to post a blog. It's the one below this one. If you didn't know I am from America and I am working and studying Mandarin. I teach the "lets be friends class" along with my partner Alex. Sometimes I notice things that strike me here and so I write about them on this blog. All the highlighted words are explained below.

Is it true that people actually hang out at Mcdonalds here? Ok, you wouldn't catch me dead hanging out there. In the USA no one, I mean NO ONE hangs out there! That place is kind of disgusting and greasy!

I knew a lady that worked in the corporate office. She said that the hamburgers were made out of by products like cow eyes, livers, tounge, that kind of stuff, so it is TECHNICALLY still beef, just not beef you would eat if you know what you were eating.

So, I am suggesting that you stay as far way from Mcdonalds as you can. Trust me on this one!

VOCABULARY

Hang out - to spend time doing something relaxing, maybe with a friend or alone. Examples of hanging out are: going to a cafe, staying home and watching TV, playing cards with your friends, reading for fun, ect.

"You Wouldn't catch me dead __________" - People usually say this if they would never do something. For example. I could say, "you wouldn't catch me dead hanging out with my ex-girlfiend." This means even if I were dead I still would not want to be with that person. It means never, not when I am dead and certainly not while I am alive. Ya get it? We usually say, you wouldn'e catch me dead -> then put an activity (verb) and then noun (person/place/thing)

Disgusting - Ok let me give you an example...You see a guy pick up a week old, half eaten hamburger off the side walk and eat the rest of it....that is the meaning of disgusting! Another way to say it is extremely unpleasant to the senses or feelings.

Greasy - Containing grease, especially too much grease: a greasy hamburger. Ok but in the way it is used in this sentence I am saying that I feel Mcdonalds is unclean.

Technically - "on a technicality" which means by law, or permitted or not permitted as written in a law or rule book. It is very hard to explain. Let me give a few examples:

1. Technically you are allowed to ride a motorcyle without a helmet but it is very dangerous.

2. People are not technically allowed to sell stuff on the street in Taipei but they still do it.