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MMFAN
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wendy
United Kingdom
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Status: offline |  Posted - 05 Feb 2003 : 16:17:35  
| | Well with all these "mistakes" being made, never ask for a rubber to rub them out. You'll get something very different, and probably some very funny looks. I'll leave you to work that one out! |
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brianthebare
 United Kingdom
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Joined: 05 Feb 2003
Status: offline | Posted - 14 Feb 2003 : 12:34:31
| I must remember to tell my daughter Sarah about the bum-bag translation. She will surely giggle if she is asked for it to be checked out!!
Thanks all for this v useful information.
Regards,
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Rushton50
United Kingdom
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Anabella
 Argentina
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blott
 United Kingdom
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Kissyme
 United Kingdom
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Joined: 19 Aug 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 02 May 2003 : 12:34:29
| | Once had a very strange 10 minutes in a shop when I asked for some napkins (serviettes) the shop assistant (young man about 17)looked very shy and with head down took me to the feminine hygene Isle !!! I thanked him and then decided to look for myself Its easy to forget that we all have different ways of saying the same thing. |
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sjd
USA
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Joined: 28 Apr 2003
Status: offline | Posted - 03 May 2003 : 02:58:34
| Oh - I just had to say how much I loved reading this page. I laughed out loud. The same language with so many differences. I love it.
My dear friend just moved back to Australia after living in England two years and then upstate New York for two years. She was in one of our stores, and her three year old needed to urinate. She asked the clerk where the toilets were. And he gave her directions to the toilets. Right there in the middle of the aisle. Ready for purchase. She went to ask another clerk and they escorted her right back to the same place. Finally she was trying not to get upset, her son had to go *BAD* and she said "where can he pee!" The clerk was embarrassed. Oh, the bathroom. She was so flustered. They escorted her to our bathrooms. You'd NEVER bathe in those places. Why DO we call them that | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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mikewj
 United Kingdom
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Joined: 12 Jul 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 13 May 2003 : 21:45:34
| Returning, briefly, to the....erm....delicate predicament of the fanny/bum bag, we took my mother-in-law (presumabley translates correctly whichever side of the Atlantic you hale from) to Florida last November.
Whilst strapping her bum bag around her waist, I warned her that with heightened security levels, the guards would want to perform searches of bags and things.
Imagine her face (she's 68) when a security guard approached her with a baton in his hand asking if he could take a look in her fanny ! |
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bonnie
USA
62 Posts
Joined: 13 May 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 25 Jul 2003 : 17:14:17
| | Now thats's funny! By the way we also rent cars and rent videos here we don't hire them. We hire bands, and caterers, and lawyers. Some palsce accross the states say things differnetly as well. Here in upstate NY we have soda, Boston area they have Pop. Here we have sidewalks, in Texas cement walks. Here pocket books, Texas Purses. I can't think of them all right now but there are many differences. | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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blott
United Kingdom
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janny
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floridadreamvilla.co.uk
 United Kingdom
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sammibabe
United Kingdom
387 Posts
Joined: 19 May 2003
Status: offline | Posted - 26 Jul 2003 : 09:52:14
| | Reading this has reminded me of the second trip (and made a giggle again) and went to Kennedy - long time ago and nothing like it is now. There was a burger van for lunch and they had burger and chips which we thought sounded good (I think that was all you could have!) but as you have probably guessed it was burger and a packet of crisps. Same trip hubby ordered a beer not realising that is lager. | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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MTP
 United Kingdom
1453 Posts
Joined: 17 May 2003
Status: offline | Posted - 28 Jul 2003 : 01:32:27
| The second post that says that a cot is a crib, we were caught out by the reciprocal of this in our first trip with child to the States. We had flown in to Boston, driven about an hour north, found somewhere to stay and when I was in reception arranging the room (at this stage our 16 month old daughter had been awake for 16 hours!) I asked for a cot for the room. No problem, they started arranging a folding bed. A spare/folding/camp bed is called a cot bed and would have beeen no use to our daughter. Don't be caught out by this one when you are tired and travelling with a frazzled child!
Another one to remember is that cutlery is often referred to as silverware.
One thing that I also find fascinating is the love of sports statistics. I was always very interested in American Football, but when I was over at camp and since then I have been amazed by the fascination with statistics to the Nth degree for sports.
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bonnie
USA
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chrizzy100
 USA
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Joined: 26 May 2003
Status: offline | Posted - 28 Jul 2003 : 18:06:44
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Originally posted by bonnie
Blott, I believe your so right. Too many to keep track of!
My sons getting an American accent.....I'm sure by the time he's 20....you'll think he was born here...... | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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Les H
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Joined: 18 Jul 2003
Status: offline | Posted - 27 Aug 2003 : 01:39:30
| My Wife always embarreses me when we are in Florida, she's a smoker and will insist on saying things like "I'm just popping outside for a quick fag" or "I'm desperate for a fag" or "where's my fags".
Usually within earshot of the locals unfortunately. What must they be thinking
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chris
 United Kingdom
1615 Posts
Joined: 21 Feb 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 28 Aug 2003 : 08:54:16
| I stated to an enquirer that the party must consist of either a family group or they (group of 8)must not be single sex (as all male and all female groups of students can be a bit of a handful).
The reply came back 'none of us in the group are single sex', the mind boggles - what are they then hermaphrodite |
Chris
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Bamboo Benny
 United Kingdom
73 Posts
Joined: 28 Aug 2003
Status: offline | Posted - 29 Aug 2003 : 14:06:42
| I made the mistake of asking "can I ponce a fag ?" when out in a Florida nightclub recently.......I almost got my face smashed in by this big bloke!!!
Do not say this if you have run out of ciggies !!! | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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