mikelowry 0 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 As we have the good Aussie expression , ' it was raining cats and dogs" how about 'it was snowing bears and monkeys out there today' Link to post Share on other sites
ShayDn 0 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 chuff |tʃʌf| verb [ intrans. ] To deposit vast quantities of snow on an inclined surface for the purpose of enabling one to slide down said surface with a humungous grin. e.g. It chuffed big style last night, no friends on a power-day, see ya! I really hope it chuffs all season long. I can't see my hand it's chuffing so much. p.s. you heard it here first. Link to post Share on other sites
ShayDn 0 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 And of course... "I'm so chuffed that it chuffed so much last night!" Link to post Share on other sites
resortguy 0 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Whatever word - lets just have it! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 oooo, a diplomat! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 the good "Aussie" expression...raining cats and dogs.....eh I don't think the Aussies have claim to that, thats a widespread saying. Also JA, people in the UK will say bathroom for toilet, in my experience the Americans will say restroom. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 gas is short for gasoline, not gas as in gassy old fart bag. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Raining cats n dogs came from England I think. Heard it there first anyway. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 babelfish tells me italian: deposito korean: 하치장 russian: ÑÐ±Ñ€Ð¾Ñ spanish: descarga french: décharge Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Originally Posted By: thursday gas is short for gasoline, not gas as in gassy old fart bag. so, where did gasoline come from? The stuff comes from petroleum oil. Why not call it petrol, like most of the civilised world? Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Jumping Jack Flash is a ... Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 ...song by the rolling stones. Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 America-bashing is SO old. Get over it, JA. Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 ... and it's AaaaaaaLL Right ... Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Originally Posted By: ger America-bashing is SO old. Get over it, JA. yeah, but JA is sooo old too. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I'm always impressed when Aussie wannabe Brits refer to the ``civilized world'' Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Fumpf. It was fumpfing on the webcams today. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Not wanting to be a "brit". just I'm old enough to remember when words had meanings that everyone understood. Then along came someone who, for example, decided that "gay" != "happy", but something else entirely. And, I'm not US-bashing. I just wish there were simple universal rules for English - which happens to have come from England - without changes made for who knows what reason. Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Words had meanings everyone understood !? - Should read "Use and Abuse" more like " most people misused but they thought they understood " I look at language as common denominators with a strong musical influence. First get over the accent, then we have how it's used. Wouldn't it be boring when books are written all the same, and which period and local English shall we use? We can argue USA manhattan English maintains the language that was spoken at the time of the first Brits arrival in the New World. Shall we speak Tudor? OxBridge? personally I like how they speak in Southern States of USA. We can talk about plain boring stuff with "everyone sounds the same Aussie accent plain talk" or put some " educated and round about beat about the bush" and do they make any difference? At least, people have preference in music so it's natural it is so in how it's spoken or sung. Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 JA, you make it sound like the English language was static for hundreds of years and then all of a sudden someone started perverting it and splitting it into different varieties. That's not the case. I guess it might seem that way because with modern technology and globalization we suddenly have much more contact with people who speak different varieties of English. Years ago on the other hand, you might have seen the odd American movie but really, you didn't communicate much with people outside your own language community. The fact is, langauge has always been evolving and if anything, the different varieties are actually converging towards some kind of standard these days, precisely because of globalization and technology. As far as judging one variety of English as being better than another.... Maybe it's a matter of personal preference as Jynxx seemed to allude to (I think he might have said that...) but people who actually study these things (ie sociolinguists) are not interested at all in judging. Just describing. And the more colourful the usage the more interesting. (Off-topic. Sorry to dump on the thread. Or jizz on it or whatever we were talking about) Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 here's a good word for dumping. "grumpy old fuddy duddy"-ing Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Don't want to see this thread snowed under with irrelevancies. JA, I fully understand and to a great extent share the angst. Language is a living, untamed beastie, and we're not happy when it pees on our particular rug -- especially when it's a rug that really tied the room together. Anyway, that's just...like, my opinion, man. Link to post Share on other sites
tripler 0 Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 how about cockney rhyming slang? We had a Donald last night. It was Donalding big time, it Donalded all night. Donald Trump = Dump = Donald. Link to post Share on other sites
Peter North 0 Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 I think jizzing is the best. Link to post Share on other sites
tripler 0 Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 I vote for CHUFF. Visual like dump, without scatological connotations. (But I'm trying to remember what it means in english slang - is it fart? - without resorting to web aids) Link to post Share on other sites
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