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post #61 of 80
12/18/02 at 7:34pm
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Anyone else here wild about Bristol City???
In case you were wondering, Bristol City is rhyming slang for "titty".
post #62 of 80
12/20/02 at 3:07pm
HB, you insane person. As we are mostly bfing or former bfing moms, while we are probably not wild about our Bristols, we sure do value them.
post #63 of 80
12/20/02 at 4:05pm
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Rest assured, your husbands value them too.
post #64 of 80
12/21/02 at 11:20am
Yammer, dialectics of Baudrillard invented by the British? :
not many 'bbc accents' in the sit coms and films I love the best....or indeed in Shakespeare or Chaucer....although Radio 4 is indispensible to me and that is very recieved pronunciation....
god knows where this sense of humour comes from, doubtless from repression.
Anyone know Spike Milligan? Genius
post #65 of 80
12/21/02 at 11:22am
Did I mention marmite?
post #66 of 80
12/21/02 at 1:21pm
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Anyone know Spike Milligan?
I have heard of him, he was on "The Goon Show", with Peter Sellers, although that was before my time. I know the Pythons really revered him, and he had a bit in "The Life of Brian".

Was he involved in any of the Ealing comedies of the 1950's? I watched "The Lavender Hill Mob" the other night, but he wasn't in that one. Alec Guiness was good, though.
post #67 of 80
12/22/02 at 2:33am
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Originally posted by Just Wondering
But when people use words (usually nouns, but also adjectives) which have another meaning completely, that makes trying to decipher even plain language, difficult.
My sister came out to visit me earlier this year, and we were walking down a street in Virginia City when we came upon a small dumpster overflowing with garbage. My sister looked at it, wrinkled her nose, and said in a disgusted tone, "Oh, that's trifling!" From her reaction I could tell she didn't mean it was trifling, but I was a bit confused. After a little while, I asked her did trifling mean aside from the true meaning. She told me it meant something disgusting or nasty and asked me what the real meaning was. :LOL Weird. She is barely a year younger than I, but sometimes we don't speak the same language.

And I am embarrassed to admit this, but I often don't understand some of the accents in films I see. The Full Monty was fine, but I had a dickens of a time with The Commitments. But I saw the movie awhile ago, and I think I was watching it after my parents were in bed, so I was trying to keep the volume low so as not to disturb them. Somehow blasting it helps--maybe I'm just hard of hearing.
post #68 of 80
12/22/02 at 1:17pm
CF "I would like an American to English dictionary, but it seems there is no such thing"

There is, I have one! Will look up the ref for it, I was given it when I arrived here and was totally confused by the language and getting into trouble frequently.

"Vicar of Dubley."



But you're right, it is one of the funniest shows ever ever ever.

Back to food. We've almost finished our Christmas mince pies. I bake a mean mince pie, and no, for those who havent eaten them, they aren't meat. With mulled wine....
post #69 of 80
12/22/02 at 2:21pm
Oooh! I would soooo appreciate that, Britishmum!
post #70 of 80
12/22/02 at 10:18pm
CF - One is called Divided by a Common Language - by Christopher Davies. Amazon stock it. There are others, I'll try to find them...
post #71 of 80
12/23/02 at 2:03am
I'm still trying to figure out what scrapple is....

post #72 of 80
12/27/02 at 3:30am
Scrapple is hog bits fried with corn (maize to y'all) meal.

Daylily, I loved Bill Bryson's other books on British & American English, but haven't read that one- I'll haveta check it out.

I like the cozy British mystery, myself. Especially partial to MC Beaton's Agatha Raisin & Hamish Macbeth series. (Yes, BBC America watchers, *that* Hamish. Haven't seen it, but don't believe it's quite true to the books, & that always annoys me. So we'll see.)

Does anyone remember 'The Goodies'? I had *such* a crush on Tim & Bill (Oddie, who I had on a BBC Radio album with John Cleese in 1962- where the heck is that?!) I had a Scottish boyfriend for a bit just to make him read to me from 'The Pearl'. Silly git!

This language, in all its permutations, is delicious when used well. It's just too rich. I love it all.

Suse
post #73 of 80
1/5/03 at 1:11am
Has anyone mentioned the TV show set in Manchester, [i]Cold Feet[\i]? It shows in re-runs on the cable channel Bravo in the US. I've been watching it while on maternity leave and got hooked.

One cool thing is that in some episodes they do translations for the "British impaired" - I learned the following vocab words which I thought were so cool:

"dead ones" - empty glasses at the pub
"Brewer's drip" - inability to get an erection due to intoxication

Also I'm amazed how often and casually in the show these responsible adults smoke marijuana. I don't think that would be on prime time at all the in the US.

Also the show is quite well acted. My impression is that Brits love the theater and even their not-so-great theater, even their TV, is a notch above ours, at least in terms of the acting. Maybe not in terms of production, although [i]Cold Feet[\i] has high production values.

Brits have all the great stuff everyone has mentioned ... but for me the best thing about England, and the thing that sets it apart, is the literature. (As the daughter and granddaughter of English Lit profs I may be a bit biased.)

Oops, gotta go.
post #74 of 80
1/6/03 at 4:37pm
"Q- I have just returned from a trip to England, and I noticed that the English put an extra 'u' in certain words, such as 'rumour,' 'humour," and 'The Roulling Stones.' Also, they call some things by totally different names, such as 'lift' when they mean 'elevator,' 'bonnet' when they mean 'lorry,' and 'twit' when they mean 'former vice president Quayle.' My question is, don't they have dentists over there?

A-- Apparently nout."

--Dave Barry
post #75 of 80
2/8/03 at 9:41pm
I count myself amongst the anglophiles now. Being as obsessed with Alan Rickman and David Bowie as I am, I know not what else to do.
post #76 of 80
2/11/03 at 11:51pm
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Back from the dead...

I mean this thread.

It's actually spelt "Alan Prickman"; the "P" is silent, however. Not many people know that.

Changing subjects, I just got the DVD of "The Office", which is another fun English show. It has been showing on BBC America, and I liked it so much that I got it from Amazon UK after seeing only two shows. I've heard that "People Like Us" is even better. Anyone here seen it yet???
post #77 of 80
2/11/03 at 11:54pm
Them is fightin words Briss. I know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows him and when I meet him I am telling on you.
post #78 of 80
2/12/03 at 12:04am
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post #79 of 80
2/12/03 at 1:38pm
Has anyone ever seen the show "Father Ted"? It is pee-your-pants funny. Dh and I rented a video with 5 episodes on it. This show makes fun of the Catholic church in a way that might be offensive to some Catholics, but I thought it was spot-on.
post #80 of 80
2/12/03 at 2:00pm
oh who cares, let's just talk about Alan Rickman.
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