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Lost in translation (US to UK)
- Thread starter secretface
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haha, i remember my dad saying that one of his employees asked him for a "shag" shortly after that movie came out, only she had no idea what it meant. he explained and she was incredibly embarressed.
Could someone post a picture of spotted dick? I think the Americans here would get a chuckle out of that.
us brits did too!!it was like a swearword you were aloud to say in the playground!!
after all,it was only food,right?
The Bog - The Toilet
Dunna - Don't
Shunna - Shouldn't have
Cunna - Couldn't
Wunna - Won't or Wouldn't
Canna - Can't
Anna - Aren't
Dinna - Didn't or Daren't (dare not)
"oh, ah shunna dun that, ah wunna do eet agin, but ah cunna 'elp meself that time. Ah blame tha curry, but dunna worry, ah'll clean the bog up before ah go!"
A typical thing to say before leaving a friends house the morning after the night before
Dunna - Don't
Shunna - Shouldn't have
Cunna - Couldn't
Wunna - Won't or Wouldn't
Canna - Can't
Anna - Aren't
Dinna - Didn't or Daren't (dare not)
"oh, ah shunna dun that, ah wunna do eet agin, but ah cunna 'elp meself that time. Ah blame tha curry, but dunna worry, ah'll clean the bog up before ah go!"
A typical thing to say before leaving a friends house the morning after the night before
And in Stoke!! Played a gig in Stoke a few months ago now and we got offered drugs from a guy that works in a pharmacy at the top of the road where we were playing!!!
Only if you are Scottish!!
With a couple of very subtle alterations it turns into Brummie...
Shunna ---> shudna
Wunna ---> wudna
etc...
Here its:
Dunt - Don't
Shunt - Shouldn't have
**** (lol seriously but it never sounds wrong in the context) - Couldn't
Wudnt (d is almost silent) - Won't or Wouldn't
Aint - Aren't
Dint - Didn't
Dunt - Don't
Shunt - Shouldn't have
**** (lol seriously but it never sounds wrong in the context) - Couldn't
Wudnt (d is almost silent) - Won't or Wouldn't
Aint - Aren't
Dint - Didn't
Only if you are drunk and slurring your words or out of you head on drugs - just poor enunciation!!
Hardly the Queen's English!!
Hardly the Queen's English!!
Oh yeah, and here in the north of england there is a bit of an aversion to the word 'the' especially before a word starting with a vowel.
It gets shorterned to t'.
i.e. Goin on t'internet.
i.e Put wood in t'hole.
It gets shorterned to t'.
i.e. Goin on t'internet.
i.e Put wood in t'hole.
There's really only one rule to understanding US slang: any word or phrase, no matter what it is, either has a sexual connotation or is about pooping (possibly both).
Another one, which was brought to mind by the post about wanking.
On a lot of US sites, people say 'fapping' instead of wanking.
On a lot of US sites, people say 'fapping' instead of wanking.
some irish ones:
gaff = house
"are ye startin'?" = "are you picking a fight with me?"
muppet = idiot
sham = knacker = pikey = scumbag = chav = well.....how do you describe a chav.....errr vicky pollard from little britain! (yeah but no but yeah but)
sat nav = gps
mobile phone = cell phone
sky + = tivo
will you meet/shift/snog me = will you make out with me
story? (whats the story?) = whats going on?
bud = buddy
grass/jib/blim/ = weed (irish people never call it pot)
put one together/skin up = roll a j
3 skinner/melter/spliff = joint
crack one out = masturbate
get yer hole = get laid
and then you have rhyming slang.....my hometown has adapted some of the british rhyming slang for ourselves....we have slang on top of other slang eg:
nat = nat king cole = get yer hole= get laid
snow = snow white = shite = ****
snowman = a guy who talks a lot of shite, bullshitter
simon le bon (duran duran singer) = gone eg "i'm simon" = "i'm outta here"
blades = money (dont ask why, i dont know)
believe me, thats just the tip of the iceberg with regards to irish slang and caloquialisms.
gaff = house
"are ye startin'?" = "are you picking a fight with me?"
muppet = idiot
sham = knacker = pikey = scumbag = chav = well.....how do you describe a chav.....errr vicky pollard from little britain! (yeah but no but yeah but)
sat nav = gps
mobile phone = cell phone
sky + = tivo
will you meet/shift/snog me = will you make out with me
story? (whats the story?) = whats going on?
bud = buddy
grass/jib/blim/ = weed (irish people never call it pot)
put one together/skin up = roll a j
3 skinner/melter/spliff = joint
crack one out = masturbate
get yer hole = get laid
and then you have rhyming slang.....my hometown has adapted some of the british rhyming slang for ourselves....we have slang on top of other slang eg:
nat = nat king cole = get yer hole= get laid
snow = snow white = shite = ****
snowman = a guy who talks a lot of shite, bullshitter
simon le bon (duran duran singer) = gone eg "i'm simon" = "i'm outta here"
blades = money (dont ask why, i dont know)
believe me, thats just the tip of the iceberg with regards to irish slang and caloquialisms.
SIMON LeBON!!
at download one year that became the popular phrase for morning glory,
simon=semi
lebon=lob-on
semi lob on.
at download one year that became the popular phrase for morning glory,
simon=semi
lebon=lob-on
semi lob on.
Useful, though I always encounter "monitor" rather than "foldback" myself. Some other musical terms:
Staff (US) = Stave (UK)
Double whole note (US) = Breve (UK)
Whole note (US) = Semibreve (UK)
Half note (US) = Minim (UK)
Quarter note (US) = Crotchet (UK)
Eighth note (US) = Quaver (UK)
Sixteenth note (US) = Semiquaver (UK)
Though I know people who are self-taught from American books who use the American system.
