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Offline Fozzy

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I was watching a program on TV called "Greham Norton" and he brought up the subject of words that ammericans dont know, so he phoned up a restruant and asked if he could snog there and all these people were asking each other what snogging is. This Is REALY Funny if you are british because snogging means kissing. My question to you lot what weard words do you know that foroners might not get. I cant wait to learn some sorted new lingo to banter about with my buds.

the chances are you know these words coz they are in the microsoft spellchecker.

sorted = cool
banter = talk
buds = friends
lingo = language
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Offline vadar_1

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First some people don't know how to spell weird...

(which is kinda weird)
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Offline Corsair

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Considering he's trying to teach slang here. :lol:

And I don't know if this is such a good idea...:doubt:
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.

 

Offline Ace

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Umm... buds and lingo is pretty common talk in the US... Banter is a more "sophisticated word" and sorted being cool? Say what? Snogging, guess that's like smooching...
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Offline IceFire

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hoover = vacum cleaner
tissue = kleenex
garage = garage (but pronounced differently)
aluminium = aluminum (pronounced AND spelt differently)
z = z (Americans say it 'Zee' and the rest of the English speaking world pronounce it 'Zed' - bet you Americans didn't know that one :D, none of your hotel clerks, store managers, or historical monument speakers do)
boot = trunk
laurie = truck
truck = freight car (on a train)

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Offline vadar_1

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Originally posted by IceFire
hoover = vacum cleaner
tissue = kleenex


thats just product corperation dominance... its not really considered slang...  though you dont hear hoover very much... its things like we rarely say cola... its always coke or... in some cases pepsi (if you like drinking liquid ****).
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Offline mikhael

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Originally posted by IceFire
z = z (Americans say it 'Zee' and the rest of the English speaking world pronounce it 'Zed' - bet you Americans didn't know that one , none of your hotel clerks, store managers, or historical monument speakers do)  


Speaking as a well travelled English speaking sort, you're wrong. Its about a half and half mix, with some countries being mixed internally. Australia, for example is mixed, as is Hong Kong.

A far odder lexical reference to letters is the British (evidently Norfolk way) habit of pronouncing 'W' when spelling as 'wuh'. One of my clients is a british industrial magazine. Whenever one of them is telling me a URL over the phone, it becomes: "Aitch Tee Tee Pee Colon Slash Slash WuhWuhWuh* dot four oh four ee are are oh are dot see oh em". The "WuhWuhWuh" is almost always said fast. These aren't the only clients that do it, just the ones that I speak to most.

Here's some commonwealth vocabulary that you might want to explain. My wife uses some of these (being Australian) and my Brit friends use the rest:
  • banger
  • mash
  • bugger
  • root
  • lorry
  • dag
  • skip
  • buckley's and none
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Offline Unknown Target

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An odd thing about MS's spell checker is that mech is a word, but mech's isn't...
WTF is with that?:confused:

 

Offline Corsair

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Word has a problem with possesives..it just doesn't recognize them sometimes.

and how about this?

Ice/bling bling = Cool necklace and stuff
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.

 

Offline Thorn

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Originally posted by vadar_1


thats just product corperation dominance... its not really considered slang...  though you dont hear hoover very much... its things like we rarely say cola... its always coke or... in some cases pepsi (if you like drinking liquid ****).


Hoover has been turned into a verb though..
If you eat something quickly you're said to have hoovered it...

 

Offline Corsair

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snarf - when you laugh while drinking and your drink comes out your nose

had to share that, sorry :D
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.

 

Offline Blue Lion

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Originally posted by Thorn


Hoover has been turned into a verb though..
If you eat something quickly you're said to have hoovered it...


 Not here, hoover is a vacuum, not a substitue for it

 

Offline Corsair

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On the subject of vacuums and hoovers...

I HATE DAVID ORECK
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.

 

Offline Blue Lion

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Why? He's such a lovely old man

 

Offline Corsair

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Originally posted by Blue Lion
Why? He's such a lovely old man
:shaking::shaking::shaking::shaking:
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.

 

Offline Blue Lion

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He is, don't you just wanna give him a big hug? ;)  :wink:

 

Offline vadar_1

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He is, don't you just wanna give him a big hug? ;)  :wink:




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Offline LtNarol

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"Hoover, keeps on sucking"

Hoover=Hatshepsut Class Destroyer

 

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bLING bLING               Cool Stuff
Homie                          Pal, Friend, Bud
G, G Dawg , Dawg        See Above
Off Da Hook                 Unbelieveable
Off da chain                 See above
tiight                              cool, awsome
sweet                           see above
shiby                             see above
duude                           friend pal bud
bro'                                 good friend
Fuzzy                            (i met a guy from the philopines who didn't know what fuzzy mean't)
French Fries                   "Chips"
Catsup                            Ketchup
hella                                extremely, totally
shag                                 "make luv"


controversial terms  
Nigga                      African American Term :  Freind
Gay                           Homosectual, stupid, bad
queer                               see above

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