sienna Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Nope. But we can say "buddy" or "pal" Not really, unless we're trying to sound british or australian. Ah, that’s what I thought. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xBillyBrownx Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 I notice that; once I was listening to two of my friends speaking spanish and it went like this: "¿Cómo fue el fiesta?" "¡Bien; fuimos 'CRUNK!'" lol i'm not sure what that means... but i get what you're saying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mika4Life13 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Yeah some things aren't explained in the georgia nicolson books, like milky pops. ?!?!?!?! wtf is that it sounds terribly yum. Why do people from like...some european countries say "Jaah" instead of "Yeah" or "Jes" instead of "yes." ?????? Explain si vous plait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guylainem123 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Well what you call bangs, we would call a fringe. To bang someone is to, well, shag 'em here as well... hey..! we have something in commun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mika4Life13 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Well what you call bangs, we would call a fringe. To bang someone is to, well, shag 'em She bangs she bands (?) Oh baby when she moves she moves i go crazy. erm...does this mean what i think it does :shocked: Here we say either "BOW CHIKA WOW WOOOOW" when referring to chicken or just "do it" or "Sex" and i just say "chicken" lmao. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcmlcm Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 we call it mcdo in quebec as well. we call it Old Mac... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artsyfartsy17 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 lol i'm not sure what that means... but i get what you're saying Lol. It means, "How was the party?" "Good, we got CRUNK!" Even though I'm pretty sure there isn't a spanish equivalent to crunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhotoJenic Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Yeah some things aren't explained in the georgia nicolson books, like milky pops. ?!?!?!?! wtf is that it sounds terribly yum. Why do people from like...some european countries say "Jaah" instead of "Yeah" or "Jes" instead of "yes." ?????? Explain si vous plait. That reminded me... I don't know if this has been mentioned but I couldn't figure out for a bit what "hihihi" means until I realized it must be the equivalent of our "hahaha." It's rather interesting. She bangs she bands (?) Oh baby when she moves she moves i go crazy. erm...does this mean what i think it does :shocked: Here we say either "BOW CHIKA WOW WOOOOW" when referring to chicken or just "do it" or "Sex" and i just say "chicken" lmao. When I see "bow chicka wow wooow" I think of ChickaChickaYeah! Thanks to the movie, 'Superbad.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heineken22 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 aaagh, blasted Superbad!!! but, i love Michael Cera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhotoJenic Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 aaagh, blasted Superbad!!! but, i love Michael Cera. I like him in Juno! It was a cute movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcmlcm Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 The shorter bit of hair that hangs in front of your forehead. does it have another meaning?? http://www.whowhatweardaily.com/website/full_article.php?id=227 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah_loves_mika Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Oi, don't take the piss out of me. now i'm well gutted. Thats some good British slang you have there.... In yorkshire we have a language of our own - if somethings a bit naff or its falling to pieces you say 'Its nowt but spit an' glue' (nowt is nothing). I'll always say 'alright?' when im greeting someone, but up here it sounds more like 'A'rite?' Alot of people say 'mate' up here, but they're the chavs Well what you call bangs, we would call a fringe. To bang someone is to, well, shag 'em does it have another meaning?? http://www.whowhatweardaily.com/website/full_article.php?id=227 In Hull, if someone says they're gonna bang you it means they'll beat you up....... *goes slightly off topic* They also call people like me who live in the suburbs 'Countrysiders' 'Farm People' and 'Donuts'............ I just call them chavs.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcmlcm Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 im a bit confused bangs = fringe? http://www.whowhatweardaily.com/website/full_article.php?id=155 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Speaking of lingual confusion: ENGLISH WILL BE THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF EUROPE! The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English." In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c." Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k." This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f." This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new cpelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords containing "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. Zen ve vil rul ze world!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artsyfartsy17 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 does it have another meaning?? http://www.whowhatweardaily.com/website/full_article.php?id=227 im a bit confused bangs = fringe? http://www.whowhatweardaily.com/website/full_article.php?id=155 YEP! You have shown the reason why americans get so confused when UKers refer to the hair as a fringe! We hear fringe and think of hanging swishy stuff on clothing. Bangs are the hair in front of your forehead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyaboutmika Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I have a great story to tell about gaps between English and American! I spent in year in the United States as a foreign exchange student (I'm French) so I learnt some American slang and in Amreican slang "fag" is a nasty word that means "gay"...whereas in Bristish English sland "fag" means a cigarette". When I went to French university for my English classes I got a very classy old school Britsih teacher who wrote on the blackboard" Have a fag", then sat right under it and I was so cracked up as I was the only one who knew the American meaning of this word! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FREDDIESDOUBLE Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 First time Ive seen this thread USA for sure .. is one that really gets people mixed up Ohh Im going for a "fag" .. really confuses people:naughty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 First time Ive seen this thread USA for sure .. is one that really gets people mixed up Ohh Im going for a "fag" .. really confuses people:naughty: You can imagine my confusion -- growing up in the US with an English mother (who smoked at the time). She always said she was going to have a fag, so I understood that meaning of the word. But as I got older and heard people calling other people "fags", I thought, "what?" How insulting is it to call a guy a cigarette? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyaboutmika Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I'm so happy I can share that story with you guys! "I'm going for a fag" is just hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyaboutmika Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Also my American (wonderful btw) host family told me that two years before they had hosted a British girl who asked her neighbour inside the classroom (a boy) for a"rubber", meaning "eraser" and he understood "condom" obviously but she didn't understand at once why he got all red!...that was a good one too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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