I was in a funk all day long. Does this sound natural?

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I haven't heard this expression before. I had to look it up. Seems natural though.

One thing I want to mention is the age of the person using it. I'm 17, and I've never used it in my life, so I would imagine it's used by people of a different age group than me. So, presumably, people older than me? Not sure, though.

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@Kuroshin Thank for you for the input. Maybe this expression was popular in 80s or 90s, I guess.

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True. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case.

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BFK

English (US)

A little unnatural

I meant to press natural but my finger slipped sorry, I'm 20 and I don't use it really at all, but people in their 30s and 40s use it all the time
Definitely sound fine if your older!!

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^^ That's really interesting. I've never heard it myself. I suppose it's not very common here in Canada.

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mattl

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Natural

I'm in my 40s and use this expression 😀

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BFK

English (US)

A little unnatural

@Kuroshin: wow hahah that's cool, it must be an American English expression them, it does get used quite a bit where I'm from in the New York City area

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yee guess so. still strange cuz we do speak american english here. even our accent is similar enough to your guys'. imma ask older people around here, see if they use it

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@Kuroshin There's this northernmost big island in Japan called Hokkaido. They say, "Oh, we don't have any accent, or peculiar expressions. We just speak the standard Japanese like you guys, ekjactry da same waay" When we, people from Tokyo, hear this, we simply smile, and say, "Do you really think so? Wow!". There are "transparent dialects" in Japan, where people are using dialects without knowing it. Is Canadian English close enough to American English? :)

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@knsmr Nah, we are definitely aware that our English is different from the US. In my previous comment I said we speak American English. What I meant was that in general, our English is a dialect of American English rather than British English. Our accent is slightly different from the US, and so are some of our expressions and words (for example, I don't call Coke or Sprite "soda", I call them "pop"). However, whenever General American differs from Received Pronunciation over a matter, our dialect inclines toward General American. That's what I meant. Since we are geographically so close to the US, Standard Canadian English might as well be a dialect of American English, but of course it's not considered one because we're a different country. When a Canadian speaks, you couldn't tell them apart from a American other than the occasional vocabulary differences (e.g. soda vs pop), or certain things we pronounce differently (our pronunciation of "about" is very famous all over the Western world -- apparently we pronounce it "a-boat" or "a-boot", lol). So I'd say we are close enough, even though we definitely have a different accent and expressions particular to us, but those differences are negligible, I think. xD

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Probably, I have seen too many scenes from "how i met you mother" where the Canadian girl in NYC is mocked by minute differences she shows here and there. Haha, yeah, I guess differences are negligible, if there's any.

BFK

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A little unnatural

@knsmr: 😂 one of my favorite shows. That's pretty much the general idea, there's not that many differences, but they're there. It's really not noticeable in most conversation, not nearly as much as the differences between standard Japanese and Kansai-Ben for instance. As an American, I can't always tell if someone is Canadian or not, but it's pretty simple to tell when someone is speaking in Kansai-Ben rather than std Japanese

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