What Brits say, what they mean and what others think they mean

[Tez3]

 

[Sukerkin]

:chuckles: I think I linked that for Don a while back when we were discussing the "Two nations Separated by a Common Language" concept .

 

[Tez3]

Mind, this will be 'soft' Southerners, Northerners call a spade a spade even if you can't understand what they are actually saying due to accents! Ee by gum!

 

[K-man]

If you would care to change the accent slightly, like add a bit of nasal twang, we would have identical meaning down here.

 

[jezr74]

In my department we have two Brits, an Irishman, two Scots and an Aussie. The Americans in the office think we are talking in code.


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[K-man]

In my department we have two Brits, an Irishman, two Scots and an Aussie. The Americans in the office think we are talking in code.


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Elementary my dear jezr. That's because you guys are speaking English! :asian:

 

[grumpywolfman]

Tez - thank you so much for this list!

I saved the image, and I'm printing it out to memorize these wonderfully polite phrases (oh yes I am). Gentlemen, I do believe that there is a reason why the author chose to put last column in pink :rtfm:

 

[Tez3]

The phrases work extrmely well too when delivered in a cut glass English accent, they have a sort of chilling effect lol. I think that's why Hollywood chooses English actors ( not Scottish/Welsh/Irish) for it's baddies, they deliver lines with a dead pan face and perfect enunciation which leaves you smiling at first until it sinks in just those few seconds later.

I enjoy British understatement but I absolutely love Aussie understatement, I'm a big fan of the Aussie ( and NZ) reality tv series such as the one about Customs, the Bondi beach life savers ( masters of the deadpan understatement....'she's lying face down in the water, not a good look' roflmao) as well as the police ones. I'm a big fan of the NZ dog programme where the prison officer and his dog 'Ted' work, I love the officers pronounciation of 'Ted'.
I love too the total lack of panic these guys have.

 

[Xue Sheng]

I'm sorry...but I have no idea what any of you are talking about

 

[Sukerkin]

We'll bear that in mind and act upon it accordingly should it become relevant in the future ... :angel:.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Again..sorry....no idea what you are saying.. must be the accent yout typing with

 

[grumpywolfman]

In my expert opinion, this is actually a secret coded message from British Intelligence intended to help preserve the sanity of all men.

 

[grumpywolfman]

We'll bear that in mind and act upon it accordingly should it become relevant in the future ... :angel:.

Well done, I had to do a double-take at the list!

 

[Steve]

It's the cockney rhyming slang that is completely incomprehensible to me. Whenever I hear the tired allegation that Americans don't speak the Queen's English, I laugh. In light of the domestic maiming of your language, the butchering done by Americans is mild by comparison.

 

[arnisador]

True!

 

[K-man]

Reminds me of this from the 60s.

F U N E X ?
S. V F X .
F U N E M ?
S. V F M .
M N X 4 2.

:asian:

 

[Steve]

reminds me of this from the 60s.

F u n e x ?
S. V f x .
F u n e m ?
S. V f m .
M n x 4 2.

:asian:

yyur. Yyub. Icur. Yy4me.

 

[K-man]

yyur. Yyub. Icur. Yy4me.

Just call me owl!

 

[Bob Hubbard]

I think the translator is drunk.

I fin' you're aw Mum and Dad. madder than Mum and Dad jack mcmad, the bloody maddest madman ever. seriously, you're 6s and 7s. but then again, if ya fancy a Bruce Lee bit of shaggin', I kna this Gooseberry Puddin'....but it'll cost ya a few pence, and ya might get the Cardboard Box.