Definition of a FOB
FOB: Fresh off the boat also known as F.O.B is a slang term that applied to people of foreign nationality who have arrived in a host nation as newly arrival immigrant, student or mostly commonly as work permit applicants. Usually describe to those of Easter and Southern Pacific Asians in the North American and Australia
1. At a restaurant while waiting to be seated, a young F.O.B waitress walk out of the restaurant looking very confidently as she glares at me (because she probably can sense that I know that she couldn’t speak a word of English)and said “Is there any Fredrick?”
Translation: “Is there a man name of Fredrick?”
- Now, after that – You better believe I made sure that laugh in her in face while this man Fredrick looks at himself and said, I guess that would be me.
2. “How you not understand mean?”
Translation: “How come you don’t understand me?”
- Here. This is almost 76% of a F.O.B phrase. They ask you this question because they think they are speaking PERFECTLY fine; making you feel like you're the idoit who just arrived to North America. After that you just feel the need not to understand more cause you just want to hear them struggle. Yes, Tina I’m talking about you.
Listen up F.O.Bs! Sometime speaking slowly and repeating the ‘somewhat of’ sentence in your head 2x it might help but it doesn’t. Don’t assume that you’ll be O-KAY when you arrive to North America for approximately 1-4years and you surround yourself with non-Asians that you will be O-KAY. It’s a great way to start but English, I admit is a hard language to speak, to write and to understand. So, don’t beat yourself over it when you see others (me) laughing at you. English is a universal language so LEARN IT.
