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  • #16
    Re: How the swear like a Brit

    Originally posted by anunitu View Post
    Yeh,you down unders do have an edge..but it may be caused by all your Crocs and snakes and giant spiders making you a bit cranky..
    You know there's something special about a country when the Prime Minister can swear on national telly and no one bats an eyelash.

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    • #17
      Re: How the swear like a Brit

      Originally posted by Rae'ya View Post
      Ooh rep point for you! I've been pulling that particular phrase out for years now and you're the first to get it!
      Pfft. I also knew that one. :P

      The aussie one that gets me is 'it's alright' or 'not bad'. HOW am I supposed to know when something is 'not bad', or 'the best night of my life' when the phrase is the same?
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      • #18
        Re: How the swear like a Brit

        true,here if they even said darn,the religious right would show up with torches and pitchforks..
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        • #19
          Re: How the swear like a Brit

          Originally posted by volcaniclastic View Post
          Pfft. I also knew that one. :P

          The aussie one that gets me is 'it's alright' or 'not bad'. HOW am I supposed to know when something is 'not bad', or 'the best night of my life' when the phrase is the same?
          In the US, "that's bad" means "that is very, very good," while "that's dope" means something is 1) clever or 2) stupid.
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          • #20
            Re: How the swear like a Brit

            Us Brits do a similar thing with bad things. 'Had a bit of a rotten day,' could mean my favourite cake recipe sunk and I was really looking forward to it; it could mean I lost three members of my family in a horrific accident. Although 'a rotten day' for a sunk cake would be considered overstating the case a bit. Tone and context are the key.
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            • #21
              Re: How the swear like a Brit

              Originally posted by volcaniclastic View Post
              Pfft. I also knew that one. :P

              The aussie one that gets me is 'it's alright' or 'not bad'. HOW am I supposed to know when something is 'not bad', or 'the best night of my life' when the phrase is the same?

              Ya gotta listen to the inflection... 'not bad, not bad at all' said with an appreciative tone means 'that was pretty damn good'. 'That wasn't half bad' said with a surprised tone means the same thing.

              Generally, 'not bad' is better than 'alright'. Lol

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              • #22
                Re: How the swear like a Brit

                Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
                In the US, "that's bad" means "that is very, very good," while "that's dope" means something is 1) clever or 2) stupid.
                The first of these is either regional or situational. I can't recall using "that's bad" for that off hand.
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                • #23
                  Re: How the swear like a Brit

                  Originally posted by anunitu View Post
                  true,here if they even said darn,the religious right would show up with torches and pitchforks..
                  If you ever have the opportunity to watch Australian parliament, watch it. They're like a bunch of teenagers slinging insults at each other... it can be really funny to watch. If you want a sample Google 'paul keating insults'... in his heyday that man could cripple you with public televised insults lol.

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                  • #24
                    Re: How the swear like a Brit

                    We have "Bad mama Jamma" we have stone cold bad ass something or other..and we also have the term Phat..that sounds like an insult,but is not,it means good..chew on that 'Mericans..
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                    • #25
                      Re: How the swear like a Brit

                      Originally posted by MaskedOne View Post
                      The first of these is either regional or situational. I can't recall using "that's bad" for that off hand.
                      It depends on how it is said - it's easiest to understand when when the word "so" is put in front of "dope" - is the "o" stretched out, or is it said short with an angry tone?

                      It may be regional Detroit speak, but, since the rise of the glorification of ghetto culture, I figured it had gone national.
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                      • #26
                        Re: How the swear like a Brit

                        Originally posted by Rae'ya View Post
                        Ooh rep point for you! I've been pulling that particular phrase out for years now and you're the first to get it!
                        Ta duck. Ta= thanks and duck is a friendly term of address in Derbyshire although as merely a Derbyshire resident, rather than a native I don't use it (that sounding like a numpty thing). It's quite funny how non-derbyshire folks will misinterpret 'duck', assuming it to be a diminutive used for women but its not, it's used equally between straight men of equal social status as well as for women and children as far as I can tell.

                        Now how would I say it in aussie? My years of watching neighbours and home and away suggests 'Thanks mate.'
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                        • #27
                          Re: How the swear like a Brit

                          Originally posted by Maythe View Post
                          Us Brits do a similar thing with bad things. 'Had a bit of a rotten day,' could mean my favourite cake recipe sunk and I was really looking forward to it; it could mean I lost three members of my family in a horrific accident. Although 'a rotten day' for a sunk cake would be considered overstating the case a bit. Tone and context are the key.
                          And nobody does tone quite like us Welsh. I mean, we're not ill, or sick, we're baaaaaaaaaad. In bed. Under the doctor. who put us on a course of tablets.
                          You need to hear it, really

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                          Originally posted by Maythe View Post
                          Ta duck. Ta= thanks and duck is a friendly term of address in Derbyshire although as merely a Derbyshire resident, rather than a native I don't use it (that sounding like a numpty thing). It's quite funny how non-derbyshire folks will misinterpret 'duck', assuming it to be a diminutive used for women but its not, it's used equally between straight men of equal social status as well as for women and children as far as I can tell.

                          Now how would I say it in aussie? My years of watching neighbours and home and away suggests 'Thanks mate.'
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                          • #28
                            Re: How the swear like a Brit

                            Originally posted by anunitu View Post
                            Yes it was B. De.(not surprised with your old man eyes you missed it)

                            10. Numpty

                            An old-school way of calling someone stupid: You dim-witted numpty!
                            You know, anu, I finally understood something. Sometimes it's good not to know some words, such as this one. This way I won't be distracted from the main subject of the conversation!
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                            • #29
                              Re: How the swear like a Brit

                              I've not noticed it. We definitely 'put the kettle on'. But as I said I'm not native and most of my friends aren't native so I only really meet the natives at work and out and about :P
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                              • #30
                                Re: How the swear like a Brit

                                Freaking upitty English and aussi intellectuals,always talking fancy and such..Not like us "Pure" working class heroes here in the good old U. S. Of A. (If nothing else we "Yanks" have a strange sense of humor)
                                MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

                                all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
                                NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
                                don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




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