Meaning of THIS IS LAME! - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English if you say, "This is lame!",
when you're describing something what you
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are saying is that it's not cool.
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It's not awesome.
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It's not interesting.
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Maybe you are seeing a movie with a friend
and the movie's not very good, and about halfway
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through the movie you might say to your friend,
"This is lame!
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This movie is lame!
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This movie is so lame!"
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So again what you would be saying there is
that you are not finding the movie interesting.
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You're actually finding it kind of boring.
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You're finding the movie uninteresting.
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The movie is not awesome, and the movie is
not cool.
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You can also use this to describe people.
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You can use the word, "lame", to describe
a person.
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It is insulting, but you could say that, "Well
that guy he's just lame."
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I wouldn't say that to their face though!
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