''My boyfriend just dumped me"

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No offense intended here, but I really feel like this is a very strange thing to nit pick about the movie. I probably feel this way because it doesn't seem to me like people wouldn't say this back then. I think we'd all be surprised at how many different slang words and colloquialisms are used today that are the same as back then.

I know exactly what you mean!! Not only did the same thought cross my mind but I also felt that the outfit that Kirsten Stewart is wearing when she says this (midriff baring skirt-top pairing) was wrong for that time. No one would bare their midriff during the day other than on the beach or by the swimming pool. Evening-wear yes, day-wear no. It doesnt help that she has a very modern body language as well - very loose movements, whereas girls back then wore so many contraptions (garters, stockings, blah blah blah) that their movement wouldve been more constricted. And dont get me started on how no one wore hats in this movie.

However having said all that, if I recall correctly, I have heard the "dumped" term in a golden oldie and I remember it seeming quite odd at the time, because I wouldnt have thought that term was around then!

Not too sure about "dump."

But there were some language uses that took me right out.

Kristen Stewart says "Right?" at one point--using the modern sense of it being a mutual discovery about something. That was jarring.

But there were other things that didn't make sense for the time. What would an under-aged Judy Garland be doing at a Billy Wilder party--who in the mid to late thirties was struggling and learning English?

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