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I found this blog entry by English Independentjournalist Tom Greaney both amusing and informative.

 

It highlights some differences of language and culture between the two dialects and countries that explain much.

 

It may go some way to explaining why words like "liberal" and "socialist" are spoken and written with contempt by some

Americans - briefly, they have been redefined and mean different things to Americans than they do to the rest of the world.

Perhaps, if one were speaking of French words, one would call them "faux amis" (false friends) - words that look the same

yet have greatly different meanings.

 

And that filler word - "like"! Well, like, that, like, drives me, like, up the, like, wall, too, like! :mellow:

(My son, like, speaks, like this, like!)

 

I would write more but I need another coffee and a fag... :coffee:



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good job ;)



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I would write more but I need another coffee and a fag... :coffee:

 

Clever blog and true. And like is often associated with the Valley Girl type from California, like. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valleyspeak )

 

Also be careful of the American English use of "fag". People in America may get the wrong idea about you, unless of course if you really were going to get a................. well, you know what I am trying to say.



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I would write more but I need another coffee and a fag... :coffee:

 

Clever blog and true. And like is often associated with the Valley Girl type from California, like. ( http://en.wikipedia....iki/Valleyspeak )

 

Also be careful of the American English use of "fag". People in America may get the wrong idea about you, unless of course if you really were going to get a................. well, you know what I am trying to say.

 

American visitors to these shores should refrain from the use of the word "fanny" for similar reasons.

Here it refers only to a certain part of a lady's anatomy (below the belt! :blushing:).



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Yeah, you just can't say "slap her on the fanny" in Ireland or the UK. Bunch of culchie bogtrotters you buggers are. :cheers:



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We Americans can often get a chuckle from the Brits and Irish whel we refer to Petrol as Gas which has a generally distinct difference in Europe. :bad:



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I will be damned if I do not get pissed when I can't go back and edit one of my posts for a typo. As in the above post where I have "whel" when I meant "when".

 

I know, I know............ be more careful. I still don't have to like it. :realmad:

 

We old people need a break for our loss of mental acumen. At least this one does. :no



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We Americans can often get a chuckle from the Brits and Irish whel we refer to Petrol as Gas which has a generally distinct difference in Europe. :bad:

 

You concern yourselves with filling up with it whereas we like to pass it, preferably noisily... :hrhr:



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like what the fuck are you like fucking like talking the fuck about like you know what the fuck like i mean?

 

like fuck it... hahahaha

 

sorry could not resist.



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like what the fuck are you like fucking like talking the fuck about like you know what the fuck like i mean?

 

like fuck it... hahahaha

 

I did suspect you had a little Valley Girl in you.


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