By going back to the late 90s and watching Cartoon Network, duuh.
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Not joking, this is how I passively learned it Courage, Muttley,KND those were the shit.
Articles matter in English!
Spanish:
"Me cago en la leche" I shit on the milk -> something bad happened, and I'm angry.
"Eres la leche" You are the milk -> you are great.
Damn, in English we can say one "shit the bed," but I might need to adapt this Spanish phrase and start saying I shit the milk.
Context
This is due to the legendary reputation of "the shit", which is distinct from the ordinary "shit" we are all familiar with.
"The shit" has rarely ever been so equaled by a living being that its use is usually correlated with great admiration and flattery.
In some convoluted terminology, "the shit" can be referred to simply as "shit" confusing it with its inferior cousin.
Skill issue
I mean German isn't any easier: Umfahren means to run over someone And Umfahren means to drive around something
Swedish:
Infart, utfart, din fart and just 
That's all, I'm done. 
Not to be one of those people, but the poster you sent is actually not Swedish. The first sentence is either Danish or Norwegian. You're still right about the word fart meaning something different in Swedish though.
When pronunciation matters!
Clearly by getting their shit together
Learn? They're all shit at it.
This post is bad shit.
I feel like "Tonality" is a big part of it.
Raises hand. "Son of beetch."
By being shit
Then doing shit
Then becoming the shit.
Itt: monolinguist native english speakers who thinks a completely common concept is exclusive to english.
I've learned a little bit of two other languages (Spanish and Japanese) and I'm pretty confident that most languages have a ton of nuance like this that you will never understand until you are actually totally immersed in that language and culture.
I mean, everything I learned in Spanish and Japanese is all super formal. Nobody actually talks that way IRL. There's words that from a translator or dictionary mean one thing, but are colloquially used totally differently. Like calling testicles eggs or nuts. "Chupa mi heuvos." They're not saying to suck their literal eggs.
I know less Japanese than Spanish but I already notice that, like, "no" isn't ever annunciated the way I'm being taught. Instead of "iie" I'll often hear just "ya." It teaches to end every statement with "desu," but I have never heard a sentence end with a desu or desu ka in any Japanese media (which is more than just anime). It's all way more casual. Questions are still understood to be questions if you use the right inflection; no need for extra syllables.
"Chupa mi heuvos." They're not saying to suck their literal eggs.
So...Chupa Chups are literally suck sucks?
In Spanish, chupa means either suck or lick depending on context.
Chupa chups are lick licks.
There are better cases for elision of sounds than iie and iya, as the latter is a different word, sort of like no and nope in English. For example in more formal contexts you'd use ~teiru at the end of verbs and pronounce the i vowel, but in casual speech it's elided to sound like ~teru.
Simple - one must strive not simply to be A shit but to be THE shit - The plutonic ideal of shit, the perfect shit from which all other shits are derivitive. Anything less is a failure. So following this logic.
"You ain't shit" = You are invalid from the rubric, so below par as not to be mentionable.
"You are shit" = Acknowledgement that you are shit of average or middling status but with the implications that vast improvement is nessisary because you are still a failure.
"You are not the shit" = More directed pointed reminder that you are far below the goal of being THE shit and maybe are overestimating yourself.
The complimentary nature is recessive requiring both positive and THE qualifiers rather than any negative or A qualifier.
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