Lawful, legal; within the law. Also: genuine, authentic.
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You're not supposed to have any sort-of kind-of gambling so they have all of their servers, which is their applications, ou-- outside or off-shore of Canada so in-other-words it becomes legit (inc.) there's always a loophole for everything. And they're making a huge amount of money with all these online- |
intense |
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Um yeah, anyways, so, the first day I got there, my mom dropped me off, we walked in the house together. My mom started crying, 'cause she thought I'm living in a goddamn crack-house. We opened the door to my room, it was a legit crack-whore that was living there the year before. And um there was a- there was a picture on the wall, an entire mural done with only two colours. Two colours, that's it. |
real |
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... used to make just like make huge forts like right there, me and my brother we would make like these huge like um like these st-- like they would have like compartments, secret compartments and-stuff. And then you would have to like walk up stairs and like. It was a legit fort. It wasn't one of these like lame like cover-forts that you just like get up and throw like snowballs. It was like le-- it was super cool 'cause you just crawl through and-stuff. |
real, cool, hardcore |
... we would basically like- like we found these boxers that um that basically had a huge dong on it. Like it- it's like three-dee. Interviewer: Oh the David, the David-Boxers. Speaker: Yeah, yeah. But it was like a three-dee one. Where you- Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Like it's legit. Yeah so I remember like the girl that I was with, she- she was pa-- like she was drunk right off the bat. |
cool |
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Speaker: Um it was similar to he-- the education here, but we had profs who were paid by our school, so they- they were teaching curriculum as though we were in Canada. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Um the French profs, though, like, legit French teachers or in France? So strict. Like, if everything is marked out of twenty as opposed to being marked out of a hundred, ah or like on a percentage-scale, they're out o-- on twenty. |
real, authentic, hardcore |
Um I think in terms of ah- well, thanks to- thanks to social-networks and, like- like you're saying, s-- ah like M-S-N, Facebook- ah the use of words like lol or O-M-G or other things are- or legit, even. You-know, I'm just cutting off legitimate to legit. Things like that becomes um i-- yeah, it converges with the- the English we speak and it becomes (inc due to static) um we use it in our daily vernacular. I think that's right, vernacular, eh? |
legitimate |
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'Cause Jesus did exist, he did exist as a human being. They have D-N-A and crap like that. Whether or not that's legit or not, who knows. Doesn't really matter. Doesn't really matter. |
real, legitimate |
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... well one thing that I've noticed like even just like on- on Facebook and like in the social networking there's like- 'cause I have quite- like a few friends from like out of- out of town and-stuff. And I noticed that lot- like a main word here is "legit". ... Like I haven't really heard that anywhere else. |
legitimate |
Speaker: That I've been like- even like- the paintball tournament when I went in Sudbury like it's so like- people around m-- my age and a bit older but they were from North-Bay and just from a bit do-- further down south so like I've never really heard "legit" anywhere else other than Timmins. |
legitimate |
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... like ah "Doesn't that bother you? Won't you be scared?" I'm like "No, you'd think she tried cutting me up in little pieces now? I'd kick her butt!" (laughs) Like it doesn't bother me. I just laugh it off, like "You're crazy mom." Legit crazy. I-don't-know. Doesn't bother me. Interviewer: So which family were you with the longest? Speaker: The Christian one. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: They were the ones that tried to adopt me 'cause I was such a good child I guess I-don't-know. One day away. |
really, very, truly |
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And they would actually have like wrestling matches, like you-know, like legit wrestling, like they would build the ring and do like full-on crazy wrestling. Like this would never be allowed in today's standard at the high-school but I remember actually one of my brother's friends like climbed a ladder and they had a guy on a table ... |
real, legitimate |
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Speaker: I- I don't need my daughter being scared and- all this other stuff and just being involved in that for no reason. Speaker 2: Yeah. We- Speaker: Want it to be all positive as possible and- Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: And all clean and legit and- Speaker 2: That's why we keep to ourselves. Speaker: Sunshine and rainbows. Speaker 2: We hang out with our close friends and that- who have kids, usually, and- Speaker: Yeah 'cause lots of friends that were close before, are intimidated or you-know, maybe- |
legitimate, law-abiding |
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Speaker: And then once we sort of like, well we had a few fights, obviously and then, things were official and then when he like started to meet everybody, then it was like, okay this guy's is legit. ... And then, now it's like, okay. Like I was actually, on the way here, we were in the car and then I was like "You know what, I'm really happy I ended up with you." And I said, "I really could have settled with way less." |
cool, friendly, authentic |