Hi and welcome back to the American slang and idioms course how to understand Americans when they talk
in this video we're going to be looking at some words and phrases that start with the letter s the first
word we're going to look at is sup sup sup.
And such means hello or what are you doing.
Sup is short for.
What's up.
And so other versions are what's up.
What up.
It's just a shortened version.
What up.
What's up.
And then the shortest version is this one sup.
OK.
So the original is what's up then you can shorten it to what up leaving half the s.
You can shorten it and push it together and say what's up or you can shorten it even further and say
sup.
This is definitely something that younger people would say more than older people.
Older people would be more likely to say what's up.
OK let's look at some conversation examples here.
Joe sup sup.
Steve.
Not much man Sabatier not much man.
Sup with you.
Not much chance of what you see is the same as saying What's up with you.
In other words what are you doing.
Not much.
I'm not doing much.
What are you doing.
Sup with you.
It's like another conversation.
This one's a lot simpler Joe.
So Steve show up and that's more where they're using it to say hello.
And you'll see this kind of thing a lot sometimes when you say sup.
It's a question and you can answer it by saying not much.
Or you can say nothing.
Just eating dinner or whatever.
But sometimes especially if you're just passing on the street you can to say suck it up and we don't
always answer the question if we don't have time.
Yes that's the words.
Up next one is sweet sweet sweet.
This is an older word.
And but it's still used quite a bit and but it's also used to kind of jokingly Sometimes it means great
or awesome or it sometimes could mean I agree.
It's almost like saying yes but usually it means great or Awesome.
OK let's look at a conversation with the words sweet Joe.
Hey man how was the concert last night.
Hey man how was the concert last night Steve.
It was totally sweet.
It's like in another conversation Joe.
I just got the latest iPhone.
The camera is so amazing.
I just got the latest iPhone.
The camera is so amazing.
I just got the latest iPhone the camera is so amazing Steve.
Sweet sweet.
So that's more where he's just saying awesome or like basically he's like saying I'm happy for you.
That's awesome.
So the next one is screw up screw up screw up and screw up means to make a mistake.
That's the most common use for it.
Make a mistake to make a mistake.
Let's look at some examples for a screw up.
Oh crap I totally screwed up this order.
My boss is gonna kill me.
Oh crap I totally screwed up this order.
My boss is going to kill me and you can see this one is past tense.
So if you screw up something right now you could say I am screwing up this order.
Or you could say I'm going to screw up this order but if it's in the past then you would say screwed
up with the E-D screwed up.
Oh crap I totally screwed up this order.
My boss is going to kill me.
They try not to screw it up this time.
OK so in this case you're screwing something up screwing it up.
Maybe this is a project.
Maybe it's dinner that you're cooking but you screw it up.
Try not to screw it up this time.
OK try not to screw it up this time OK.
Let's look at another example.
If you screw something up do whatever it takes to fix your mistake.
So this is similar to it.
You screw it up or you can screw something up.
If you screw something up do whatever it takes to fix your mistake.
If you screw something up do what ever it takes to fix your mistake get the next words screw around
so this one has a very different meaning than screw up screw around screw around and this can actually
also have a sexual meaning if you sleep with a lot of different people or have sex with a lot of different
people but that's a whole different context for this context.
It means to waste time or neglect your responsibilities.
OK so screw around means to waste time or neglect your responsibilities.
Let's look at some examples using the phrase screw around you guys stop screwing around and get to work.
This is how you'll usually see it with the I N G.
Screwing around.
It's what you're doing right now during the present.
You're screwing around gay.
Will you guys stop screwing around and get to work.
I'm tired of homework.
Let's take 20 minutes to just screw around.
I'm tired of homework.
Let's take 20 minutes to just screw around.
So they want to just take 20 minutes take a break.
Waste some time.
I'm tired of homework.
Let's take 20 minutes to just screw around.
This is what a teacher would say to her students.
If you kids keep screwing around I'm going to keep you here after class.
If your kids keep screwing around and going to keep you here after class if you kids keep screwing around
I'm going to keep you here after class they screw around and that is it for this lecture.
For phrases that start with the letter S.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.