Name: アメリカのスラング：塩辛い、缶詰 (AMERICAN SLANG: SALTY, CAN’T EVEN)
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In today's Summer of Slang video, we're going to learn can't even and salty.

Don't get salty. I'm going to get into the lesson in one second.

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It means, I can't handle that, I can't deal with it.

For example, during the election season in the US, there was so much political information

being shared on Facebook, so many political ads.

I think more than once I heard someone say “I can't even”.

Or, if someone shares an article of something particularly horrible on Facebook, like

starving  children or something terrible,

they might say with it, “I can't even”.

Basically, you're cutting off the sentence.

It's like saying: I can't even handle it or I can't even deal with it.

But the funny thing about it is it's so bad that you don't even want to waste your words on it

so you just cut it off after 'I can't even'.

This can describe someone who is agitated, annoyed, maybe bitter, upset.

She's really salty because he dumped her.

He's salty because his parents took away his car.

So the meaning of these two terms is similar.

The pronunciation of 'can't even' is tricky because of the word 'can't'.

Remember that Americans don't fully pronounce that T: can't. can't. can't.

We say can't instead, which is a lot  like the word 'can', but it's more abrupt and cut off.

Now, someone could get sloppy here: I can't even.  I can't even.

and connect it, drop the feeling of the T altogether: I can't even.  I can't even.

Then it sounds like CAN, I can't even,  it's all connected and smooth.

Even though it sounds like 'can', it's still this phrase: can't-- I can't even.

Remember the phrase is cut off here, there would be another verb in the sentence.

So even though we're cutting that off, the word 'can't' still functions the same way here.

Can as a helping verb reduces to kn—kn—

it is the word 'can't' even if you're not hearing the T.

Salty, it's a 2-syllable word with stress on the first syllable.

So the T here is a True T because it's part of a cluster.

So you don't want to actually lift your tongue tip up, salll---- for the L, we just don't need it.

Just make the dark L sound with the back of the tongue: salllllllty.

Then the tongue goes to the roof of the mouth for the True T.

I know the pronunciation is hard, don't get salty. Just work on it.

We went over that in summer of slang video 2.

So click here to check out the whole series.

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