So here I was in the USA and I had a major problem being understood. I had no problem understand american English because we all watch american movies and TV shows, but the basic american does not watch British TV programmes and apart from Harry Potter not a lot of British films. In a effort to elaborate about barriers to communication I wanter to find a list of basic basic language.
So I thought a quiz would be appropriate I will write below a list of words and see how many you can get right/translate into American English.
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Very interesting thread....May I contribute jumper=sweater; craic=good or fun time? (I'm Irish)
Also within the Deaf community there are regional "dialects" as well....I am from NYC and our sign for shoe is VERY different from those ASL users in California....
Having spent the last 32 years in Australia, I can understand where you are coming from. Jelly in Australia is jello here, so when a patient asked me for a jello, I didn't know what she wanted. When I asked my husband, "how he was going?" He said by car!!!! What I meant was how he was doing. No worries mate! All is good. I am teaching my work mates an aussie slang a day at a time.... they all say- NO WORRIES now.
A couple of weeks ago, we were doing report and just chatting for a while. At one point, I got up and said I need to go see my patients as "I haven't clapped eyes" on them yet. They all looked at me funny. One of our Irish nurses understood what I meant. My Mum is English (Yorkshire), but I am Canadian through and through and event have the local accent, but every once in a while I will say something that they have never heard before.
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Having spent the last 32 years in Australia, I can understand where you are coming from. Jelly in Australia is jello here, so when a patient asked me for a jello, I didn't know what she wanted. When I asked my husband, "how he was going?" He said by car!!!! What I meant was how he was doing. No worries mate! All is good. I am teaching my work mates an aussie slang a day at a time.... they all say- NO WORRIES now.
Whenever anyone asks me, "how are you doing?" I reply, "How am I doing what?!"
I refuse to use any other speech other than AUSSIE speak!
As much as I love my American mates, I resent the americanisation of the Australian language.
We have our own unique speech here. In fact, most americans love it! Why change it?
Whenever anyone asks me, "how are you doing?" I reply, "How am I doing what?!"
I refuse to use any other speech other than AUSSIE speak!
As much as I love my American mates, I resent the americanisation of the Australian language.
We have our own unique speech here. In fact, most americans love it! Why change it?
PROUD to be an AUSSIE!
To paraphrase George C. Scott in the opening scene of the movie, Patton: " All real Americans want to be...Australians."
I suppose I've seen too many Crocodile Dundee movies, but count me among the many who continue to believe that the Wild West is now a bit south of the Far East.
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to paraphrase george c. scott in the opening scene of the movie, patton:" all real americans want to be...australians."
i suppose i've seen too many crocodile dundee movies, but count me among the many who continue to believe that the wild west is now a bit south of the far east.
:chuckle well mike, you wont find me disagreeing!
then again .... i'm one heck of a shocker! a fiercly proud, biased, patriotic, gum tree loving, outback red earth loving, kookaburra loving, don't eat kangaroo, aussie! :redbeathe:redbeathe:up::chuckle
that said: i do so love my american mates! :heartbeat
then again .... i'm one heck of a shocker! a fiercly proud, biased, patriotic, gum tree loving, outback red earth loving, kookaburra loving, don't eat kangaroo, aussie! :redbeathe:redbeathe:up::chuckle
that said: i do so love my american mates! :heartbeat
and, truly, i'm pretty darned happy to be an american, with no serious desire to be anything else. but i sure would like to visit australia, and new zealand. and scotland, and ireland. and while i was in the neighborhood, it would only make sense to see england and wales. i have been to the canadian side of niagara falls, but only for about ten minutes. wouldn't mind seeing more of the place, and it seems like the most realistic goal of my grand tour of the english(ish)-speaking world.
i'm a birder, and one of the birds that never fails to tickle me is the belted kingfisher. i've seen their aussie cousins in captivity, but i'd love to see a kookaburra in the wild.
plus, you know, any country where drinking beer is the national pastime has got to be ok.
I went to nursing school in Indiana. Lived and worked there for years. When I moved to Texas, I had some of the same communication problems you are talking about.
Nope can't remember anything interesting connected to the word Ashes :chuckle
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athena55, BSN, RN
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Very interesting thread....May I contribute jumper=sweater; craic=good or fun time? (I'm Irish)
Also within the Deaf community there are regional "dialects" as well....I am from NYC and our sign for shoe is VERY different from those ASL users in California....