british to american translation

[Amby 490]

anytime someone says they're going to smoke a ** I think they're going to go out and kill a gay. i just cannot accept the true meaning.

And I think that they'll be on their knees smoking something else.

great now I'm going to think of gay BJs every time my friend tells me she's going out to smoke

[spookyturtle 9,466]

anytime someone says they're going to smoke a ** I think they're going to go out and kill a gay. i just cannot accept the true meaning.

And I think that they'll be on their knees smoking something else.

great now I'm going to think of gay BJs every time my friend tells me she's going out to smoke

At least it'll take your mind off of butt sex for a while.

[Amby 490]

anytime someone says they're going to smoke a ** I think they're going to go out and kill a gay. i just cannot accept the true meaning.

And I think that they'll be on their knees smoking something else.

great now I'm going to think of gay BJs every time my friend tells me she's going out to smoke

At least it'll take your mind off of butt sex buggering for a while.

good point spooks

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I always try to be helpful.

[Teacher Mark 53]

http://www.translatebritish.com/

eta: I looked this up because I saw a book at the bookstore last night that was all translations

It's could be for non native speakers. I'm asked about the differences between American and British English at least once a week by students. My reply? Grammar. I had one of the Vietnamese teachers tell me that she was teaching her students British English only to have my West Virginia a$$ come ind and mess up the works! Every once in a while I'll go full blown hillbilly in my speech to show them the extreme differences. They usually understand one word out of 10.

[Amby 490]

http://www.translatebritish.com/

eta: I looked this up because I saw a book at the bookstore last night that was all translations

It's could be for non native speakers. I'm asked about the differences between American and British English at least once a week by students. My reply? Grammar. I had one of the Vietnamese teachers tell me that she was teaching her students British English only to have my West Virginia a$$ come ind and mess up the works! Every once in a while I'll go full blown hillbilly in my speech to show them the extreme differences. They usually understand one word out of 10.

[thetreble 19]

Jared had a pretty hard time with my speech/accent/slang when we first met. My dad's Scottish and my gran lived in Manchester who I visited very often. I also went through a period of dating a guy that was from and living in Manchester.

Any way-we are talking about the actual spelling thing right now over in the Canadian form as many of the Canadian grammar goes hand in hand with English grammar. It's hard to get rid of when you are used to spelling a certain way for years, in my opinion.

I feel like the number one thing my husband still struggles with is my dry sense of humour.

[Ladylethal 12]

[Saddle Bronc 124]

The translators don't seem to have worked all the bugs out. I tried the reverse (Yank-Brit translation of "pi**ed", it came up as..."pi**ed"--actually, in Yank usage it means "angry"--while the Brit-Yank translation came out correctly as "drunk")

[thetreble 19]

The translators don't seem to have worked all the bugs out. I tried the reverse (Yank-Brit translation of "pi**ed", it came up as..."pi**ed"--actually, in Yank usage it means "angry"--while the Brit-Yank translation came out correctly as "drunk")

Is there more than one meaning for each word? Pissed could also mean "it pissed down.." past tense...it rained.

[Mags 112]

The translators don't seem to have worked all the bugs out. I tried the reverse (Yank-Brit translation of "pi**ed", it came up as..."pi**ed"--actually, in Yank usage it means "angry"--while the Brit-Yank translation came out correctly as "drunk")

Is there more than one meaning for each word? Pissed could also mean "it pissed down.." past tense...it rained.

Yup. Brits used the term p!ssed for numerous things. It p!ssed down with rain, I'm really p!ssed off, or I'm really p!ssed on alcopops, or something.

My most hated Americanism (which is a midwest thing, I think) is when people point to stuff and say "it needs washed".

No.

It needs WASHING. Or it needs TO BE washed.

*tuts*

Americans!

[NickD 203]

This morning, my wife and I were discussing the word, "pen".

"pen1 (pµn) n. 1. An instrument for writing or drawing with ink or similar fluid, especially: a. A ballpoint pen. b. A fountain pen. c. A pen point. d. A penholder and its pen point. e. A quill. 2. An instrument for writing regarded as a means of expression: “Tyranny has no enemy so formidable as the pen” (William Cobbett). 3. A writer or an author: a hired pen. 4. A style of writing: wrote plays with a witty pen. 5. pens. Pinions. 6. The chitinous internal shell of a squid. --pen tr.v. penned, pen·ning, pens. To write or compose with or as if with a pen. [Middle English penne, from Old French, from Late Latin penna, from Latin, feather. See pet- below.] --pen“ner n.

pen2 (pµn) n. 1.a. A fenced enclosure for animals. b. The animals kept in such an enclosure. c. Any of various enclosures, such as a bullpen or playpen, used for a variety of purposes. 2. A repair dock for submarines. --pen tr.v. penned or pent (pµnt), pen·ning, pens. To confine in or as if in a pen. See Synonyms at enclose. [Middle English, from Old English penn.]

pen3 (pµn) n. A female swan. [Origin unknown.]

pen4 (pµn) n. Informal. A penitentiary; a prison. [short for penitentiary.]

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pet-. Important derivatives are: feather, petition, appetite, compete, perpetual, repeat, pen1, propitious, ptomaine, symptom, hippopotamus.

pet-. Also pet…-. To rush, fly. Variant *pt¶-, contracted from *pte…-. 1. Suffixed form *pet-r³. FEATHER, from Old English fether, feather, from Germanic *fethr½, feather. 2. -PETAL, PETITION, PETULANT; APPETITE, COMPETE, IMPETUS, PERPETUAL, REPEAT, from Latin petere, to go toward, seek. 3. Suffixed form *pet-n³. PANACHE, PEN1, PENNA, PENNATE, PENNON, PIN, PINNA, PINNACLE, PINNATE, (PINNATI-), PINNULE; EMPENNAGE, from Latin penna, pinna, feather, wing. 4. Suffixed form *pet-ro- (see ½ku-). 5. Suffixed form *pet-yo-. PROPITIOUS, from Latin propitius, favorable, gracious, orginially a religious term meaning “falling or rushing forward,” hence “eager,” “well-disposed” (said of the gods; pr½-, forward; see per1). 6. Suffixed zero-grade form *pt-ero-. -PTER; ACANTHOPTERYGIAN, APTERYX, ARCHAEOPTERYX, COLEOPTERAN, MECOPTERAN, ORTHOPTERAN, PERIPTERAL, PLECOPTERAN, PTERIDOLOGY, PTERYGOID, from Greek pteron, feather, wing, and pterux, wing. 7. Suffixed zero-grade form *pt-ilo-. COLEOPTILE, from Greek ptilon, soft feathers, down, plume. 8. Suffixed variant form *pt¶-no-. STEAROPTENE, from Greek pt¶nos, winged, flying. 9. Reduplicated form *pi-pt-. PTOMAINE, PTOSIS; ASYMPTOTE, PERIPETEIA, PROPTOSIS, SYMPTOM, from Greek piptein, to fall, with nominal derivatives pt½-to-, pt½-ti-, pt½-ma. 10. O-grade form *pot-. HIPPOPOTAMUS, from Greek potamos “rushing water,” river (-amo-, Greek suffix). 11. Suffixed form *pet-tro-. TALIPOT, from Sanskrit pattram, feather, leaf. [Pokorny 2. pet- 826.]"

Just a simple three letter word, but do you see what I mean?

Everyday, it's a new word, the word pen came up when I suggested we buy a playpen for our granddaughter, she thought it was some kind of toy pen used for writing. She said the Spanish word for that is corral, just said we use that word for horses, not babies, but serves the same function. English can get confusing.

[The_Dude 1,142]

personally I enjoy saying swamp donkey

Love that one. I also love calling people chavs. Nothing like getting a phone call 6 hours later from a cousing "hey, I just looked up what you called me..... you're an as$hole"