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Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:42 am  |
As well as taking great pleasure in introducing obscure english words to all you poor linguistically challenged yanks, I have noticed that american stuff has started creeping into my way of writing. For example I just told Lori that a coupla pints of snakebite and I'm good. I am NOT good after a couple of pints of snakebite. In fact I'm frequently very bad in every sense. I'm sure this is an american thing I've picked up here.
Anyone else found themselves using foreign expressions or grammar? |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:01 am |
| I haven't found myself using them yet - but can't wait to find the chance to tell some git to go get hacked off by a coupla slappers or bloody chavs!! |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:55 am |
| Candy8865 wrote: |
| I haven't found myself using them yet - but can't wait to find the chance to tell some git to go get hacked off by a coupla slappers or bloody chavs!! |
You can't TELL a git to get hacked off, but a git could really hack you off. To hack a person of is to annoy them greatly or to pi$$ them off. I htink you are good on the chavs slappers and gits though!  |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:00 am |
 Candy.
I use a lot of foreign words both American, British and sometimes Spanish depending on the situation.
And watch out for those chavs, they spread faster than STD's, well almost.  |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:00 am |
I find myself telling people that I'm 'gobsmacked'...Debbie Travis says it on t.v. all the time & I just love the way it sounds so I picked it up. You don't even have to look it up..you just know what it means...well at least I did, some of me friends aren't so bright.  |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:14 am |
| guapagirl wrote: |
| Candy8865 wrote: |
| I haven't found myself using them yet - but can't wait to find the chance to tell some git to go get hacked off by a coupla slappers or bloody chavs!! |
You can't TELL a git to get hacked off, but a git could really hack you off. To hack a person of is to annoy them greatly or to pi$$ them off. I htink you are good on the chavs slappers and gits though! |
eeh by gum  Liz we could have some real fun training Candy. 
I have trouble with the written word. I now never know if I should write colour or color or liter or litre etc. It takes me so long to remember the british way.  |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:16 am |
| Very strange thing about color, colour, favorite & favourite...Last year we were supposed to write it the American way-drop the u- (less confusion), this year my daughter got it wrong in spelling-back to the Canadian way. Wish they'd make make up their minds. |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:17 am |
| I lived out in the islands for about 10 years, and visited the States a lot during that time. I've been back in the UK for over 3 years now, and still put gas in my car |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:08 pm |
| fifi wrote: |
| I lived out in the islands for about 10 years, and visited the States a lot during that time. I've been back in the UK for over 3 years now, and still put gas in my car |
v/s ??? ooo, I know - Bloody chavs???
j/k |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:20 pm |
| Candy8865 wrote: |
| fifi wrote: |
| I lived out in the islands for about 10 years, and visited the States a lot during that time. I've been back in the UK for over 3 years now, and still put gas in my car |
v/s ??? ooo, I know - Bloody chavs???
j/k |
Candy, Liz has created a monster.
No that isn't the right context. You gotta stop now because I am gonna wet meself.
Guapa
another smooth hijacking. We struck again. |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:53 pm |
| loopylori wrote: |
| Candy8865 wrote: |
| fifi wrote: |
| I lived out in the islands for about 10 years, and visited the States a lot during that time. I've been back in the UK for over 3 years now, and still put gas in my car |
v/s ??? ooo, I know - Bloody chavs???
j/k |
Candy, Liz has created a monster.
No that isn't the right context. You gotta stop now because I am gonna wet meself.
Guapa
another smooth hijacking. We struck again. |
It's my thread ya dumb broad!
what's with the v/s j/k? Candy?
And re different spelling, bleedin' word it automatically corrects into US spelling and then I lose marks don't I?
Now, anyone fancy twating a wazzock? |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:57 pm |
| guapagirl wrote: |
Now, anyone fancy twating a wazzock? |
Must be my cold medicine giving me the guts to even ask...but...
Doing WHAT to a WHO?  It can't be good... |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:35 pm |
| marina wrote: |
| guapagirl wrote: |
Now, anyone fancy twating a wazzock? |
Must be my cold medicine giving me the guts to even ask...but...
Doing WHAT to a WHO? It can't be good... |
Don't worry, it's only something chavs do!
Twatting is yorkshire for thumping or hitting and a wazzock is a stupid person |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:39 pm |
| Okay. I must now be officially old because I do not know what any of those words mean. Please enighten me....pretty please. |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:48 pm |
Guapa
another smooth hijacking. We struck again.[/quote]
It's my thread ya dumb broad!
I know thats why I found it so bleedin funny |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:08 pm |
Uh, taking the 'ing' off that word and it definitely does NOT refer to thumping/hitting someone
| guapagirl wrote: |
| marina wrote: |
| guapagirl wrote: |
Now, anyone fancy twating a wazzock? |
Must be my cold medicine giving me the guts to even ask...but...
Doing WHAT to a WHO? It can't be good... |
Don't worry, it's only something chavs do!
Twatting is yorkshire for thumping or hitting and a wazzock is a stupid person |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:33 pm |
| Janna wrote: |
| Please enighten me....pretty please. |
I meant to say enlighten me! |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:40 pm |
| Perhaps Candy can explain it better...take off the suffix from the aforementioned word with and, depending where you're from, you'll get it...if not, you're probably better off |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:14 pm |
| marina wrote: |
| Perhaps Candy can explain it better...take off the suffix from the aforementioned word with and, depending where you're from, you'll get it...if not, you're probably better off |
Does that word mean the same thing in the UK as it does in the US? Lily Allen has it in some of her songs and she's British. I assumed it meant the same thing....she has a dirty mouth. |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:22 pm |
I'm pretty sure it does
I still want to know about gits, slappers and chavs. |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:00 pm |
| guapagirl wrote: |
As well as taking great pleasure in introducing obscure english words to all you poor linguistically challenged yanks, I have noticed that american stuff has started creeping into my way of writing. For example I just told Lori that a coupla pints of snakebite and I'm good. I am NOT good after a couple of pints of snakebite. In fact I'm frequently very bad in every sense. I'm sure this is an american thing I've picked up here.
Anyone else found themselves using foreign expressions or grammar? |
Awesome!!
I did find it a bit shocking when visiting Disney and a security guy asked to search my 'fanny pack'!!! A fanny over here in the UK means a ladies private parts! |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:08 pm |
| Janna wrote: |
I'm pretty sure it does
I still want to know about gits, slappers and chavs. |
Git - not very nice person, can also be called a plonker, tosser or w*nker I guess.
Slapper - girl with loose knickers! Think Britney Spears, oh no perhaps not, she doesn't wear them.
Chav - think Britney Spears again, your equivalent of trailer trash, someone with not much money but has to have all the tacky designer gear, think Burberry. |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:14 pm |
| If it's 'fanny' as in your butt, it means the same thing here...I can't really visualize it meaning anything else. |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:14 pm |
Yes, I found out about the "fanny pack" thing too. After 14 years of living in the US, I moved back here to Sweden. A few months later I took a trip to the UK and made a comment to my British friend about all the tourists with their "fanny packs". She became very red in the face and wondered what I meant, so I pointed one out to her and then she understood that it was those zipper pouch things that some people wear around their waists, mainly tourists. That word in British English does NOT refer to one's rear, butt, behind it refers to a ladies privates.
On the other hand the word "twatting" came up here and well if you drop the "ing" off that word it essentially means the same thing as "fanny" does in British English but in American English it is a gross slang term that mainly teenaged boys (and sadly some classless grown men) use. It's no wonder a few posters here wondered what that word meant.
I don't mean to offend anyone from either culture and I hope that I didn't. |
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Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:19 pm |
| Anna_in_Sweden wrote: |
Yes, I found out about the "fanny pack" thing too. After 14 years of living in the US, I moved back here to Sweden. A few months later I took a trip to the UK and made a comment to my British friend about all the tourists with their "fanny packs". She became very red in the face and wondered what I meant, so I pointed one out to her and then she understood that it was those zipper pouch things that some people wear around their waists, mainly tourists.
On the other hand the word "twatting" came up here and well if you drop the "ing" off that word it essentially means the same thing as "fanny" does in British English. So no wonder a few posters here wondered what that word meant.
I don't mean to offend anyone from either culture and I hope that I didn't. |
You were just explaining very nicely done. I am sure you didn't offend anyone.
I had to warn my daughter about thongs before she set off to Australia just incase she slapped anyone for mentioning them. |
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