Klarinet Archive - Posting 000328.txt from 2004/03

From: "noone nonya" <klarinets@------.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] English and American
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:30:01 -0500

Actually tony, regarding

"They could have produced a better example in 'pissed'; which in England
means, 'drunk' or 'inebriated', but in US means 'angry'."

here in the US, i have heard teens actually say "pissed Drunk" so here we
have adopted all those meanings.... Damn kids... lol
Dave

>From: Tony Pay <tony.p@------.org>
>Reply-To: klarinet@------.org
>To: klarinet@------.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] English and American
>Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 22:22:06 +0100
>
>In message <007201c402f3$c7403980$19d54c51@------>
> "Rupert Kahn" <Rupert.Kahn@------.net> wrote:
>
> > Anyone who is enjoying this thread should check the Beebs "Routes of
> > English" website:
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/index.shtml
> >
> > This programmes on which this is based was worth the license fee by
>itself.
> > If you can get to hear CDs from the programme you will not be
>disapointed.
>
>Good one. I agree.
>
> > A few comments.
> >
> > Stuffed: The story seemed to say that English hosts took "stuffed" said
> > after a meal to mean shagged or pregnant. This sounds apochryphal to
>me.
> > Stuffed certainly can mean shagged, but it is also used to mean well
>fed,
> > and would take a desperate and diliberate act of misunderstanding to
>mean
> > anything else in this context.
>
>Again, I agree. Though, I find these sorts of things differ between me and
>my children.
>
>They could have produced a better example in 'pissed'; which in England
>means, 'drunk' or 'inebriated', but in US means 'angry'.
>
> > Mind the gap/watch your step: If someone says watch your step I look
>for
> > dog poo to avoid. Mind the gap is specific.
>
>If you were referring to my post, I was asking about, 'mind THE step'
>(specific), not 'watch your step' (general). I take 'mind the step' to be
>current in the US too, in the sense that there could be a printed notice
>appropriately displayed just before you encounter a step. (There are
>unexpected steps in both countries.)
>
>No?
>
> > If my memory is right it's only Bank Station on the Underground that is
>so
> > curved it has big gaps. Is there somewhere else.
>
>Yes: Waterloo, for example, where there's an announcement as the train
>pulls
>in. I'm sure there are others, but I can't immediately produce a list.
>
>Tony
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