Reflections on the dancing mood!

'Serously"is a word I have almost gotten used to hearing here in the US except that whenever I do hear it I imagine some high school 'non-seríous' glib high-spirited conversation between consenting young adults bantering about homework but definetly not more 'serious' than serous banter! I understood this phrase eventually when sharing rooms with some college student types who would constantly refer to this (lame) expression although they were brothers (seriously) and immigrants and 'for sure' (another one) speaking a kind of creol for the benefit of listeners and, probably, girls! (Hey!). So my point is or should be that its easy for me to get distracted by this sort of bantering because I read a lot and discuss a lot and still am not able to slide off in this direction very literarily/easily. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me and I unfortunately resent being addressed in these seemingly confusing terms, whether of endearment or not isn't the point! Naturally its also the case that others see me as a frustrating 'lstener and ask me to spell incredibly abstruse words, such as in the GMAT exam to test my unfailing memory on vocabulary. I didn't anticipate getting this deeply into the subject but, bottom line is I felt like blowing off steam in this/that direction. Amen!