NA/EU Slang/Sayings Problems?!
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Ael Rhiana,
Posted on: 2011-03-20 01:21 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
One word...
Chavs.
<3
Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios
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Oddly enough I barely use "cheers" in that context at all in the real world, but I use it frequently in MMOs. Didn't occur to me I might be confusing the natives.|
Originally Posted by Master Zaprobo
One that I've found living in the USA that they're not aware of...
Cheers = Thanks ... I get the strangest looks at the store - "cheers" is not just for drinking  |
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
One word...
Chavs. <3 |
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And suddenly I hear Cassandra in DOCTOR WHO wailing, "I'm in a chav! Nice rear bumper though... Oooh! It's like being in a bouncy castle!"|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
One word...
Chavs. <3 |
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I hear more and more Yanks using the term "Cheers" (it's pandemic with my friends) while in game. It's an odd phenomenon.
Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios
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well, considering the games fanbase (nerds, in the positive sense) are a bit more likely to be influenced by some british entertainment, particularly comedies, i think you will notice a lot of people quite familiar with the terminology already. worse for old farts like myself that grew up on monty python, black adder and dangermouse. i was using penfold-isms when i was still in grade school. heck, i'm not only familiar with chavs and their american counterparts, but have seen several videos where they, in the midst of happy slapping, have happened upon individuals who give them a cultural comuppance.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I hear more and more Yanks using the term "Cheers" (it's pandemic with my friends) while in game. It's an odd phenomenon.
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I hear it quite a bit too, I just always thought it had something to do with drinking. Since nobody ever bats an eye when I warn them I'm playing under the influence, and ever time someone says "brb, getting another beer" it's met with a round of "get me one too," I've just assumed I play with a lot of drunks. No, I'm not on Pinnacle.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I hear more and more Yanks using the term "Cheers" (it's pandemic with my friends) while in game. It's an odd phenomenon.
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Bollocks, now I'm gonna have to watch Austin Powers again.
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I always considered "Cheers" to be like "Aloha" - sort of a friendly hello/goodbye depending on context. I had no idea it's supposed to be a thank you.
Some of my characters already refer to elevators as lifts so I was aware of that word but only about half of the others I've seen in this thread.
fa g g ot = a bundle of sticks
git = an idiot or moron
gum = glue
knickers = pants, underwear, shorts.
Do the Brits still use bumbershoot or parasol for umbrella?
Keep in mind, I grew up in the American South-West. I am also a member of a Medieval-Renaissance Re-Creation Society called The Adrian Empire, no it's not larping we use steel swords. So a lot of European phrases are common place for me. Am I the exception not the rule?
Living in America and growing up with some rhyming slang (among other things) in the house...
I'm curious if anyone in the community commonly uses any rhyming slang?
Trouble and strife
Skyrocket
on me todd
bristols... <.<
And I'm curious if people within NA community online here are a bit more savvy about some of it...
Most people don't have a clue as to the real meanings of bollocks and/or bugger... (don't be offended!)
@Zethustra
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and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
My friend's family called their loofah-sponge a "poof". Their scottish family visited and were rather alarmed to hear "There's a poof in the shower if you need it".
The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
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Haha, okay that just made me laugh out loud.|
Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
My friend's family called their loofah-sponge a "poof". Their scottish family visited and were rather alarmed to hear "There's a poof in the shower if you need it".
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@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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Rhyming slang just isn't used in the US(at least not in Massachusetts). It's a mystery as to its meaning. (I have learned Cockney rhyming slang was originally meant not to be understood)|
Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Living in America and growing up with some rhyming slang (among other things) in the house...
I'm curious if anyone in the community commonly uses any rhyming slang? Trouble and strife Skyrocket on me todd bristols... <.< And I'm curious if people within NA community online here are a bit more savvy about some of it... Most people don't have a clue as to the real meanings of bollocks and/or bugger... (don't be offended!) |
Bollocks? I've learned what that means(not something you want to yell in public). The dog's bollocks? Somehow good.
Bugger? Apparently not nice, but don't know what it is. (I understand it just doesn't sound the same in an American accent--Bugger instead of Buggah)
The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
--The Question, JLU
The phrase "knock up" means something completely different in Britain and the USA.
In Britain, it can mean "wake someone up" (e.g., "I'm going to Fanny's house to knock her up tomorrow morning"), or to throw something together out of odds and ends (e.g., "My dad knocked up a treehouse out of some old lumber scraps").
In America, "knock up" means to get pregnant. So you Brits don't go knocking any of us up, ok?
I'd like to know what the Brits say in-game when someone levels. Some variation of grats/gratz/congrats or something else entirely?
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
I'd like to know what the Brits say in-game when someone levels. Some variation of grats/gratz/congrats or something else entirely?
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If their community is as tight as it could be, they're all talking in globals agreeing upon what ridiculous mis-information to relay to the NA community.
In all honesty...
In those situations, I believe they tend to say good wank!
@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
The thing with bugger is that its actual meaning is basically a specific case of the f-word, yet in slang usage - even though it is often used in the same contexts - it's treated as far less offensive/profane.
I'm also always mildly amused at how many forums, that may otherwise be strictly moderated, let "bollocks" go unchallenged.
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I think the US version probably gets used more here than the UK one these days - I hadn't actually heard the UK one at all until I read this post, and had to go google it to confirm the awaken definition. Maybe just not used in my corner of Scotland, but I don't recall ever hearing it on British tv shows either.|
Originally Posted by sleestack
The phrase "knock up" means something completely different in Britain and the USA.
In Britain, it can mean "wake someone up" (e.g., "I'm going to Fanny's house to knock her up tomorrow morning"), or to throw something together out of odds and ends (e.g., "My dad knocked up a treehouse out of some old lumber scraps"). In America, "knock up" means to get pregnant. So you Brits don't go knocking any of us up, ok? |
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
I'd like to know what the Brits say in-game when someone levels. Some variation of grats/gratz/congrats or something else entirely?
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I'd imagine it's the same considering that came from Everquest and that game didn't have servers separated by regions (they weren't really planning on being as huge as they were/got).
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
I'd like to know what the Brits say in-game when someone levels. Some variation of grats/gratz/congrats or something
else entirely? |
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Pre-dates EQ I think, I remember "grtz" and similar being used on text MUDs.|
Originally Posted by Rikis
I'd imagine it's the same considering that came from Everquest and that game didn't have servers separated by regions (they weren't really planning on being as huge as they were/got).
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Oh, and I had a friend that spent a couple years in the US when he was a teenager. Got into a bit of bother in his first week at a US school when he asked the teacher if he could borrow a rubber...
(less funny anecdote)
The same friend visited Scotland, and at a pub asked for a can of coke. He received a bug-eyed stare, "You want a CAN of coke? Afraid we've only 'tins' here"
Apparently, "cans" in Scotland, are what we call "kegs" in the US.
The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
--The Question, JLU
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Oh my goodness, that sounds so wrong. Funny, but wrong.
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Originally Posted by sleestack
(e.g., "I'm going to Fanny's house to knock her up tomorrow morning")
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The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
--The Question, JLU
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Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
And of course the same is true in the opposite direction for a certain American term for bottom.
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Reminds me of the scene in King Ralph where Ralph was a bit concerned that they were going to be eating spotted dick... (then the camera briefly panned over to a rack of sausages.)
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| I think my safest bet would be to simply use Spanish. Unless it's those weirdo Spaniards with their weirdo Spanish. |
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
I'd like to know what the Brits say in-game when someone levels. Some variation of grats/gratz/congrats or something else entirely?
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Jolly good show old chap!
or Jgsoc for short
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As an American married to an Australian (and also a lover of british shows) there isn't much slang that I don't know. I know more slanguage than my husband, poor bloke...
Although I still remember when I didn't know any, and during one of our first conversations he said he had a torch near his keyboard so that he could see. I was like...you have...a...wha...???
Yes, I imagined one of those flaming sticks sitting on the corner of his desk in some sort of tribal looking holder to keep it from setting his surroundings on fire. I finally found out that "torch" meant flashlight.
Whoops!
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